Concept Of Alienation Research Articles

SOCIAL IDENTITY AND ITS IMPACTS ON YOZO OBA’S ALIENATION IN “NO LONGER HUMAN”

This research is conducted to understand social identity development and its impacts on alienation experienced by Yozo Oba, the main character in Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human (1958). This study applies the Social Identity Theory (SIT) by Trepte & Loy (2017) and Fromm’s theory of alienation (in Nadhiroh, 2015) to analyze how Yozo’s experiences influence his social identity development and how it affects his actions throughout his life. This research uses a qualitative descriptive approach and a close-reading method to collect and analyze the data. The primary data is the English translation of the novel by Donald Keene (1958), and secondary data is collected from journals, articles, and books related to SIT and the theory of alienation. The analysis of Yozo Oba using the principles of Social Categorization, Social Identity, and Self-Esteem from SIT, and the concept of alienation from oneself, alienation from others, and alienation from society shows that Yozo Oba developed a dissatisfying social identity which affected his experience and behaviors, and led him to feel alienation from himself, others, and the society.

THE CONCEPT OF THE EXISTENTIAL FALL IN ALBERT CAMUS’ THE FALL AND WILLIAM GOLDING’S FREE FALL

The atrocities of World War II and the following grim period of recovery in Europe resulted in the fact that human innocence was wiped away and replaced by the state of never-ending guilt for crimes committed in the pre- and post-WWII period. The overwhelming majority of people realized that their lives were wrought by the previously dormant qualities of selfishness and hypocrisy leading them to experience their “fall”, standing for the loss of innocence and disappearing trust in the meaning of rationalised existence, from then on was undermined by the absurdity of everyday life. The concept of the existentialist fall is a recurrent theme both in Albert Camus’ The Fall and William Golding’s Free Fall. While The Fall is the forefather of many existentialist novels of the second part of the twentieth century, portraying man strangled in a hopeless and nihilist struggle taking place in the new historical environment, Free Fall, in its turn, written three years later, managed to become one of the best specimens of fiction dealing with the concepts of human sin, free will, guilt, alienation and loss of freedom. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to analyse and compare Camus’ The Fall with Golding’s Free Fall in terms of their treatment of the concept of the existentialist fall.

“He would do nothing in the office”: Work and alienation in cinematic adaptations of Herman Melville’s Bartleby.

This paper analyzes the representation of the office workplace in filmic adaptations of Melville’s short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener”. Following a brief overview of film adaptations of Melville’s short story, this article will discuss Miro Bilbrough’s (2001) and Gerard Amsellem’s (2013) short films, Andreas Honneths (2010) experimental interpretation as well as Laura Naylor and Kristen Kee’s (2017) stop-motion movie. By, for instance, analyzing how the movies try to replicate the first-person narration, find visual images for Melville’s uncinematic descriptive prose, or underline the thematic importance of writing by incorporating different forms of written text, I will firstly examine techniques of intermedial transposition. Since the filmmakers deploy the setting to reimagine or modernize the story, the set design is to be regarded as an essential part of the adaptation process. Paying particular attention to the usage of space, the visual presentation of physical and metaphorical walls, as well as the utilization of non-human entities as ‘actors,’ I will seek to demonstrate how the movies under study reflect contemporary office environments and dynamics of work culture. Updating the nineteenth-century quills and inkpots to modern office technology, for example, allows the directors to reflect upon how electronic communication can cause or reinforce isolation. Different concepts of alienation serve as an essential theoretical framework for the movies. The adaptations concern themselves with social disconnect, engage in questions of ecological alienation, or focus on a political and socioeconomic interpretation of Bartleby’s passive resistance to productivity and consumption.

Ruderality and refugia in the ruins: heritage, alienation, and post-industrial naturecultures in Northwest Wales

After Glyn Rhonwy slate quarry in Gwynedd County, Wales closed in 1930, the process of natural succession began to blanket the hills and pits with green vegetation. The ruderal ecologies which now call the quarry home are an unruly coalescence of ‘weeds and waste’, often characterised as insignificant and unwanted. Despite growing awareness of brownfield sites as oases of biodiversity, global heritage bodies like UNESCO have not been convinced of their value. Inspired by the concept of alienation within feminist posthumanism and incorporating studies from the natural sciences, this case study critically addresses the nature/culture binary which constitutes the framework of UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention. Through a combination of landscape survey and policy analysis, I argue that the species constellations which thrive in the quarry voids of Northwest Wales are also of outstanding ecological, educational, and aesthetic value, worthy of consideration at the highest level of heritage policy and practice.

Technical Alienation in Contemporary Global Sculpture

The research was concerned with studying technical alienation in contemporary global sculpture, as alienation is a concept that gained an important place due to its connection with humans and then moved to different fields, including art. Accordingly, the study was built on four chapters. The first chapter included: the research problem that ended with the following question (What are the uses of technical alienation in contemporary global sculpture)? It also included the importance of research and the need for it, as well as the goal of the research and the limits of the research, and then defining the terms mentioned in the title and defining them linguistically, terminologically and procedurally. As for the second chapter: it included two sections: The first section: by studying the concept of alienation in philosophical thought and what its manifestations are. The second section: was concerned with studying the representations of alienation in contemporary global sculpture. The chapter concluded by reviewing the indicators of the theoretical framework to benefit from them in analyzing the research sample. As for the third section: it included the research community. His sample, the research tool. The fourth chapter: included the results of the research, its discussion, and its conclusions. Among the results reached by the researcher are:1. The phenomenon of alienation reflected different states of representation depending on the level of alienation, its time, and its social place that did not belong to its paths. It constituted a realistic (material) representation of the sculptor’s state of separation from the surroundings of his community, embodied in the sculptural treatments of his works.2. The state of alienation for the sculptor was represented by an internal struggle between two active tendencies, the first represented by his desires, while the second was founded on his needs that could not be satisfied, in order to contribute to a creative, sculptural product to bring them out (the state of alienation). Therefore, the state of alienation is considered a type of active orientation (alienation). Positive) It resulted in sculptural works with a creative path.

Epistemic alienation

ABSTRACT The concept of alienation has been used to capture a specific kind of social ill or malady, and one that philosophers have argued is distinctive of life in modern society. I argue that there is a properly epistemic form of alienation present in modern society that arises due to a conflict between the dynamics of group knowledge and traditional requirements on the intellectual virtue of individuals. As group-based knowledge becomes increasingly widespread in modern society, the conflict with virtue becomes more pervasive, and the virtuous become alienated from fundamental epistemic goods. The aim of this paper is to examine this conflict and to highlight that the ‘social turn’ in epistemology is not free from costs.

Introducing Point-of-Care PCR technology in general practice: Ambiguities, experiences, and perceptions among health care professionals.

In this paper we present findings from a qualitative ethnographic study investigating the experiences and perceptions of general practitioners and other practice staff when introducing a new point of care diagnostic test technology (point of care polymerase chain reaction (POC PCR)) in general practice in Denmark. The ethnographic study was conducted in five general practice clinics, involving observations in four of the clinics and interviews with general practitioners and practice staff in all five clinics. Following an initial analytic phase in which barriers and facilitators in the implementation process of the Point-of-Care test were identified, we developed theoretically informed themes, drawing upon Hartmut Rosa's social theory of technological acceleration. These themes included ambiguous experiences and perceptions of: (i) diagnostic specification and inflation embedded in diagnostic practices; (ii) empowerment and erosion of professional judgment; (iii) strategies of security and insecurity in communication; (iv) the interdependence between professional autonomy and economic structures associated with organizational power; and (v) subjective and organizational time. We discuss how diagnostic technologies simultaneously contribute to and disrupt treatment safety, efficiency, and medical decision-making. Using Rosa's sociological concepts of alienation and resonance, this article furthermore explores how these ambiguous dynamics are experienced in general practice settings. It also examines the implications of navigating a heterogeneous socio-technical and medical landscape and what it means to be a health professional in a contemporary general practice environment that is increasingly shaped by diagnostic technologies.

The Xenology of the Powder Keg of Europe: the Reflection of the Peculiarities of the Friend Oo Foe Dichotomy intThe Balkan Model of the World in the Xenopejorative Vocabulary of the Languages of The Balkan Sprachbund. Articulation of Issue

This article discusses the reflection of the features of the “friend or foe” dichotomy in the Balkan model of the world in the xenologic pejorative vocabulary of the Balkan sprachbund languages: Albanian, Aromanian, Bulgarian, Modern Greek, Macedonian, Romanian and Serbo-Croatian. The author gives a brief review of the historical, cultural and geopolitical specifics of the Balkan-Carpathian region, which influenced the local peoples’ ideas about strangers; some traditional mythological beliefs of the Balkan peoples related to the conceptual field of otherness are also presented. Based on the analysis of the internal history of the word, an attempt is made to define the main models for constructing derogatory names for strangers in order to compare the data for various Balkan languages and, to the extent possible, build an integral image of the concept of alien in the Balkan conceptual worldview. According to the results of the study, the xenopejorative vocabulary of languages of the Balkan sprachbund shows significant similarities both in terms of form and content. Pejoratives with undifferentiated evaluativity predominate, which could account for the richness of the Balkan derivational morphology and a large number of lexical borrowings in each of the languages; pejoratives with an indication of appearance, features of language and peculiarities of behaviour are also widely represented; however, the first are referentially limited, while the second and the third are universal, from which it is concluded that the prototypical Balkan alien is someone who speaks differently and behaves different-y. At the same time, the most common target for pejorative vocabulary in the Balkan languages among all strangers is the Romani people, which is due both to a number of stereotypical ideas about the physical and behavioural features of this ethnic group, and to the historical isolation caused by the nomadic way of life and the closedness of the Romani community from outsiders.

A stranger with your door key: are we mistaking alienation for place attachment?

PurposeScholars of disaster have discussed how place attachment affects the disaster landscape. The rupture of self from home, of familiar into strange and disconnected is explored through this lens. I propose in this paper that it is possible that what we are seeing is not a sudden disruption of place attachment, but an ongoing process of alienation.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper I discuss the concepts of both place attachment and alienation. In particular I explore Marx’s concept of alienation. I then look at examples from disaster research and identify instances and concepts that can be better interpreted as an ongoing process of alienation.FindingsI find that, when using Marx’s framework of alienation, we can take examples from disaster studies that might appear as a sudden disruption of place attachment and critically examine them as cases of alienation.Originality/valueThis exploration of disaster theory offers a new framework for bringing together urban theory, in particular critical urban theory, with disaster research.

THE PHILOSOPHICAL VISION OF ECONOMIC KNOWLEDGE IN ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Knowledge constitutes one of the important pillars in reaching the targets set by individuals, institutions, and countries. Likewise, the study of science in the light of knowledge aims to focus on the total dimension of knowledge in order to control the particles of science, and determine its reality, components, and targets. Accordingly, in order for the vision not to be distorted, efforts to be lost, and the boundaries between truth and falsehood to disappear under the umbrella of the concepts of cultural alienation, the forefront of which are (objectivity), (scientific), and (neutrality) from the Western perspective, and so that the distortion of the cultural character stops. For the nation, it is necessary to pay attention to the cognitive lesson in studying the sciences, especially economics and other social sciences that shape the movement of man and society and direct the targets to where they want, in order to be in the position where we should be active and involved in building human civilization.

Max Weber’s rationalization processes disenchantment, alienation, or anomie?

The aim of this paper is to analyze which concept describes the central theme in Max Weber’s works — the rationalization processes — best: disenchantment, alienation, or anomie. I first describe how Weber’s rationalization processes were understood in the past. Most scholars have interpreted these processes as disenchantment, although some have seen a stronger affinity to the Marxist concept of alienation. Since the majority have regarded disenchantment as the central theme of Weber’s legacy, I discuss Weber’s rare statements about the disenchantment process, most of which appear in a speech that was published later as Science as a Vocation. I then introduce definitions of key concepts (Hegelian alienation, Marxist alienation, Durkheimian anomie, and de-magification) to provide a more varied and precise vocabulary. This will aid in describing at least two different rationalization processes that can be derived from Weber’s theoretical framework (Economy and Society) and his historical studies. The first, in the economic and political sphere, can be characterized as Marxist alienation, whereas the second, in the religious sphere, can be interpreted as de-magification and Hegelian alienation. It is possible to regard Weber’s statement in Science as a Vocation as a third rationalization process, in the sphere of knowledge production, which would suggest the concepts of de-magification and anomie. However, such a reading would seem to contradict the greater body of Weber’s methodological writings. Finally, it is concluded that the term disenchantment is not a very useful concept for portraying Weber’s intended view.

I Saw Ramallah and its Approach to Realistic Colonial Literature

The concept of alienation and exile was very important among the postcolonial enthusiast literary researches. Due to the sporadic nature of the topic, it was estimated that a new area of research exists to be investigated. Due to this interest, this study attempted to discuss the concepts of exile, alienation from homeland and the colonialism in Mourid Barghouti's I Saw Ramallah with postcolonial theory.The research attempted to discuss the problem of resistance and personal choices in dealing with the wave of modernization in the colonized countries or regions. It should be mentioned that while this study focused on the ideological clashes caused by colonialism, it was interested to see how a new concept of comparative literature as a discourse tolerance can reveal the meaning of literary works. To do so, this study investigated comparative literature as a form of literary studies against nationalism. In this case, the Mourid Barghouti's I Saw Ramallah investigated new ways of reading about the literature of Palestine. On the Other hand, I Saw Ramallah showed that the ideology of nationalism was one of the main reasons which cripples the Palestinian literature to offer a more realistic investigation of colonial situation in Palestine which Mourid Barghouti attempted to criticize in the novel.

Dilemmas of intervention: From person-centred to alienation-centred dementia care

Discussions regarding personhood and dementia care are often based on practices of recognition; on notions of being—or not being— ‘one of us’. This article provides a short overview of personhood as articulated in dementia care, especially in the assemblage of practices known as ‘person-centred care’ (PCC), and in post-human approaches that developed following the critique of PCC. This article posits an alternative framework, based on a rereading of the concept of alienation, that we want to call ‘alienation-centred care’. It considers the extent to which dynamic prosthetic networks can be adapted to the lives of people with dementia, rather than only examining the individual's reactivity to dementia interventions that define traditional approaches. It further urges us to understand the multiple origins of alienating states. Conclusions explore how this framework might address some of the limitations identified in both humanist and post-human approaches to personhood and dementia.

Heteronomie und Entfremdung

Abstract New approaches to the concept of alienation propose to understand alienation as a kind of heteronomy and to establish a connection between Kant’s and Marx’ philosophy. This paper explores Kant’s understanding of alienation and shows, with help of Kant’s Reflexionen, that he exclusively conceives the term “entfremden/Entfremdung” within the meaning of the legal concept of “Veräußerung”. When interpreting “Entfremdung” as “Veräußerung” instead of “heteronomy”, similarities emerge between Kant’s and Marx’ thought, which manifest in the Kantian figure of the locator and the Marxian worker.

The Concept of Alienation and Alienation in Organizations

Although the concept of alienation has been studied in the literature for years, it is a topic that has not lost its currency. This article delves into the enduring significance of the concept of alienation, examining its historical development, causes, and consequences within the context of organizational settings. Alienation, characterized by an individual's loss of faith in their environment and self, manifests as a disorder leading to profound loneliness and hopelessness. The study particularly focuses on workplace alienation, highlighting the inherent conflict between job demands and an employee's intrinsic nature. Organizational alienation is explored as a nuanced reflection of an individual's emotions arising from dissatisfaction within the employment context.
 The research conducts a thorough analysis of individual, social, and sociological consequences, unraveling the far-reaching impact of alienation on both personal and organizational levels. In response to the challenges posed by alienation in organizations, strategic interventions are proposed to mitigate its pervasive effects and cultivate a positive and cohesive organizational environment. This comprehensive exploration amalgamates insights from existing literature, providing a professional and detailed examination of the complex phenomenon of alienation. in this article, the influence of culture (Cultural Norms and Values, Communication Style, Inclusiveness and Diversity, Leadership Style, Organizational Structure, Workplace Rituals and Traditions, and Employee Recognition and Pay Systems) on organizational alienation and the importance of culture in this context are emphasized. The article contributes valuable information to deepen the understanding of alienation's implications for individuals and organizations, offering insights for developing strategies to address and prevent alienation in organizational contexts.

Натурализация мигрантов: современные тенденции

With the widespread recognition of the concept of human dignity and universal human rights standards, the rigid boundaries between the concept of citizen and alien are blurring. Many individuals reside outside the State of their citizenship on a long-term basis. Migrants cannot be viewed as a homogeneous community, but differ in terms of their states of origin, grounds, purposes and duration of stay, visa regimes, professional qualifications, and future migration plans. However, widespread transnational migration creates real problems for migrant receiving states due to the erosion of socio-cultural homogeneity of the population; an increase in the number of groups with different value systems living on the same territory; a fairly high proportion of migrants among those who break the law or are unemployed; the creation by some migrant communities of parallel economies, shadow social structures and the use of social norms of the country of origin in their relations. Rising tensions and clashes between migrants and natives are contributing to the tightening of state policies on migrant reception. Acquisition of citizenship is beginning to be more tightly coordinated with migration policy and considered in the light of social cohesion. The introduction of new criteria required for citizenship (linguistic, integration, economic) is largely oriented towards identifying culturally close economically self-sufficient migrants whose values are not particularly different from those shared by the majority in the host society. In the sphere of legal regulation, two factors significantly influence the level of naturalisation — the introduction of dual citizenship and the possibility of acquiring citizenship by birth on the territory of the country.

Communicative Activity: Social Theoretical Foundations for Critical Materialist Media and Communication Sociology in the Digital Age

This paper contributes to the social theoretical foundations of a sociology of media and communication by making use of the cultural–historical school in psychology. Such perspective gains relevance in digital capitalism and the blurring of production and Internet usage. The paper first revisits Habermas’s influential notion of communicative action and agency. Second, it uses activity theory as an alternative, more promising way of theorising because it links communication closer to work. A model of communicative action is introduced and a conceptual link between media and human tool use is established. Third, the paper elaborates on the notion of activity in the digital world and posits that digitalisation can be understood as a ‘machinisation’ of mental and communicative-coordinative work. The developed perspective, the paper concludes, allows critical media and communication sociology to operate with meaningful concepts of communicative expropriation, exploitation and alienation.

“Dehumanization of man” is a key problem of the modern era

The human problem, which originally belongs to the number of fundamental problems of philosophy and culture, does not lose its significance today, but also acquires a special acuteness and, accordingly, relevance.The phenomenon of dehumanization, the concept of alienation, globalization and globalization processes are considered from the standpoint of historical determinism, when solving the tasks set, they turned to the ideas of K. Marks, E. Fromm, D. Lukach, T. Adulo, etc. When writing the article, methods of analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, comparison were used. Globalization processes, which are a distinctive feature of all states and societies, combine an infinite number of aspects of social life that vary in scope – from local to planetary, while having different dynamics and orientation. Globalization and globalization processes are not the end or the stop of social processes. Dehumanization presupposes the degradation of morality. The research is based on conceptual provisions, ideas, results of the problem of dehumanization and the problem of alienation in the context of globalization, the publications of Russian and foreign authors on the stated topic are analyzed. The object of study is the problem of “dehumanization of man” and the topic of alienation in modern globalizing conditions.As a result of the analysis, certain vectors of the spiritual development of modern society are outlined in the conditions of a systemic crisis of value orientations and lack of spirituality, inhumanity. The article presents the outlines of new ethical programs that are designed to counteract the process of modern man’s loss of a genuine humane essence and his purpose in society.

Theorising meaningful non-alienated labour

This paper aims to evaluate Marx’s conception of alienated labour from the point of view of Alasdair MacIntyre’s conception of practice. I will argue that Marx’s conception of alienation in The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (and elsewhere) is too abstract, and therefore needs to be revised to reflect the reality of the 21st century. It presupposes that, in capitalism, all salaried and waged labour is alienated (a claim recently reiterated by Amy Wendling in her otherwise outstanding Karl Marx on Technology and Alienation). Clearly, this is not the case. The key characteristics of alienation as spelled out by Marx may not be present in a great variety of contemporary jobs dominated by services, especially if they are (or can be seen as) MacIntyrean practices (for example, practicing medicine in a public hospital or working as an engineer in a private company). Drawing on some of the most notable literature on the forms of alienation and reification, I will aim to theorise the conception of meaningful non-alienated labour. Given that practices, as meaningful non-alienated activities, are small islands of human excellence and resistance against the economic pressures of institutional profit maximisation and the self-valorisation of capital, I will conclude the paper by considering the political importance of this conception of labour for anti-capitalist struggles in the 21st century.

Using Alienation to Understand the Link Between Work and Capabilities

ABSTRACT The last five decades have witnessed sociologists formulating various scales to measure and assess the degree of alienation of workers. Critical Marxists, however, argue that de-ideologisation and valueneutrality cannot be seen as desirable properties of a reconceptualization of the Marxian notion of alienation. Most Marxist scholars are not in favour of a comparative-quantitative analysis of Marx's theory of alienation. Nevertheless, Sen situates Marx's theory in the category of those which carry out “realization-focused comparison” (as opposed to “transcendental institutionalism”), by comparing societies that actually exist or may evolve. This paper articulates the need for an operationalization of the concept of alienation in empirical terms and calls for a meaningful dialogue between the capability approach to meaningful work and the emerging and significant body of literature on alienation and capabilities. It argues that alienation, translated to the capability vocabulary as “impairments in responsible agency to attain the capabilities one has reason to value” may also be mapped onto failed social relationships. Even when we do not limit the concept of alienation to the system-anti-system binary, we need to understand it in the context of the failures of economic institutions existing in the contemporary world.