Muhammad Arif Khan · Journal of Development and Social Sciences · 2021
Modernity has though opened new vistas of existence, yet it has brought in its wake trails of woes and worries, pains and pangs, which have got worldwide attention with emergence of particular terminologies like alienation and self-alienation. Both these terms might have existed in the annals of history, named and unnamed, but a particular signification has made them a topic of debate. Two world wars, the rise of globalization and one's settlement in a war torn and economically growing world has introduced human beings to external as well as internal incompatibility amidst growing challenges of life. Human beings it appears are standing on a crossroad and are confronted with Shakespearean idea of "to be or not to be." This research therefore tries to investigate as to what is alienation and what is self-alienation. Alienation and self-alienation appear to be products of modernity as modern human being, an alien, personally or impersonally, at home or on foreign lands, in loneliness or gatherings, seems in a state of great perplexity, confusion, chaos, uncertainty, helplessness and hopelessness. The discussion shows that alienation is objective whereas selfalienation is a subjective phenomenon.
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Justo L. González · SUNY Press eBooks · 2012
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Yuejiao Wang · Asian Journal of Social Science Studies · 2022
The alienation of labour, the alienation of needs and the alienation of consumption are three forms of alienation, and three stages in which the degree of alienation continues to increase. In terms of their transmutation history, the three alienations are the composite products of different historical periods, levels of productivity and degrees of industrialisation. In terms of their generative logic, labour alienation is the starting point for the emergence of a series of alienating forces; need alienation is the inevitable product of labour alienation and the necessary intermediary for the emergence of consumer alienation; and consumer alienation is the joint effect of labour and need alienation.
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Joan Marques · 2026
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Claudia Tang · OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) · 2024
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Olay, Csaba · Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) · 2020
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Hannah, Michelle · RADAR (Glasgow School of Art) · 2019
Presenting a series of photo montage works, this exhibition is based on the book ‘Woman on the Edge of Time’ by Marge Piercy, one of the first feminist utopian novels about a woman wrongly incarcerated in a New York mental ward in 1976 where she is visited by a time traveling non binary individual from the year 2137. \n \nThese visions of an excavated future are captured in framed prints and created from fragments of fashion and lifestyle magazines collected from various waiting rooms; where pages are torn, ripped and cut into new esoteric meanings of consumer capitalism through the means of digital collage. The installation includes aqua tinted fractals placed as wallpaper, a projected, calming ‘EUROPA’ moon (one of Jupiter’s many moons named after a Phoenician princess in Greek mythology, from whom the name of the continent Europe is taken) and a looped ambient music piece taken from samples recorded in QEU hospital Glasgow waiting rooms in late 2018. \n \n‘Alienation’ takes its influence from the physical surface of photography found in the alien self, hospital art, xenofeminism, self care, institutional environments, planetary landscapes and a disturbed cosmic glamour. \n \nSuttie Arts Space is an arts venue within Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, open 24hours a day for both visitors, staff and patients.
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Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens Kew)
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Collections, Special, Library, Fleet, Estrada, Ines · Digital Commons - RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) · 2016
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Steven J. Jensen · 2023
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Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Warren D. TenHouten · 2024
Alienation is not a frequently invited guest into the study of the emotions. Perhaps the main reason for this is that alienation is mostly not regarded as an emotion – but rather as a political or philosophical notion. Alienation is a concept often associated with Marxist social science – a notion covering the experiences of the working class in capitalist and industrial society. Moreover, in a more broad sense, alienation is also associated with the coming of modern society as such – with its particular social, cultural, economic, religious, urban, architectural and a range of other characteristic features. However, as a more generalized feeling – not necessarily related to one’s class status and socioeconomic position or to the rise of modernity – alienation may also point to a certain emotional experience. This chapter seeks to frame alienation within a sociological and social theoretical context. It does so by providing some insights into alienation as an emotional experience (although we do specifically not state that alienation is an emotion, but it an experience with certain emotional connotations). First, we will trace the roots of the idea of alienation in the work of the Romantic movement – G. W. F. Hegel and Karl Marx. Following this, we will dig into a number of studies that have pointed to alienation as an emotional experience in modern and late modern society. Here we will look at the work of C. Wright Mills on white-collar work life in modern large-scale organizations, and Arlie R. Hochschild's work on the commercialization of human feelings and emotion work. This leads us to the more recent work by Hartmut Rosa on acceleration and alienation before concluding the chapter with some microsociological insights by Erving Goffman on alienation from interaction. In this way, the chapter aspires to provide a broad overview of reflections on alienation.
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Alexander Abdennur · University of Alberta Press eBooks · 2020
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Chris Yuill · 2018
Alienation theory speaks to the lived experience of capitalist society. The basic premise is that social agents are estranged from their talents and creativity, and lose control of their ability to work meaningfully with others. The theory of alienation is most commonly associated with Marx, forming a crucial element of his wider critique of capitalism, but it does also share some common ground with Durkheim's and Merton's ideas on anomie. Marx identified four basic expressions or modalities of alienation such as product alienation, process alienation, human nature alienation and other human alienation. Within sociology the use of alienation theory reached its peak in the 1960s and 1970s. A considerable output of research-based journal articles and theory-orientated books were published at that time, however it was often intellectually fractious, with alienation theory being the subject of much debate. There has been a modest re-engagement with alienation theory within sociology of late.
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Inny Accioly · 2020
The text analyzes the common sense about the concept of alienation and how it is intentionally related to youth. When discussing the concept of alienation through the lens of Marxism, the text reveals how late stage capitalism complexifies, deepens and reproduces alienation as a way of intensifying labor exploitation. Marx understands four dimensions of alienation in capitalism. The worker is alienated from the object produced by their labor; the set of knowledge comprehended by the different steps of the work process; their most basic characteristic as human beings, that is, creativity in the transformation of nature; alienation from the other human beings and nature. It is thus argued that neoliberal school with standardized and impoverished curriculum performs the function of reproducing alienation aiming at intensifying exploitation of youth labor in an increasingly unstable and precarious labor market.
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Schacht, Richard · 1971
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Bertell Ollman · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 1977
In this book, the most thorough account of Marx's theory of alienation yet to have appeared in English, Professor Ollman reconstructs the theory from its constituent parts and offers it as a vantage point from which to view the rest of Marxism. The book further contains a detailed examination of Marx's philosophy of internal relations, the much neglected logical foudation of his method, and provides a systematic account of Marx's conception of human nature. Because of its almost unique concern with helping readers understand Marx's unusual use of language, Alienation has proven very popular in university courses on Marxism on both undergraduate and graduate levels. The first edition was widely reviewed, and in this new edition Professor Ollman replies to his critics in 'More on internal relations,' published here as Appendix II. In addition to this new appendix the author now provides a more systematic discussion of Marx's theory of ideology, elements of which were formerly dispersed throughout the book. He also attempts to set the treatment of political alienation within the broader framework of Marx's theory of the state as a model of how an approach based on internal relations can be used to integrate various apparently contradictory interpretations of Marx's views.
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Jenni Meredith · 1996
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Chris Yuill · The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society · 2014
Abstract Alienation is an underused theory in the sociology of health and illness, but it offers potential in understanding the complex interactions between social structures, human abilities and poor health. Associated with Karl Marx, the theory of alienation rests on a particular understanding of human nature that turns on the unique and transformative ability of humans to labor cooperatively on nature and the world around them in order to meet a range of natural and social needs. Alienation occurs when this fundamental human capacity is distorted and inverted by certain types of society, where people lose control over how and why they work. Labor then ceases to be rewarding and a moment of self‐realization, and instead is experienced as routine, unrewarding, and exploitative. People who are alienated can potentially experience a range of negative mental and physical health outcomes.
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Encyclopedia of Politics: The Left and the Right: Volume 1: The Left and Volume 2: The Right · 2005
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