At a loss to explain the spate of fatal school shootings in recent years, some educators and social scientists have turned to that eternal plague of childhood, bullying. The chances of eradicating ...

“Loneliness has followed me my whole life,” says Robert De Niro’s character, Travis Bickle, in Taxi Driver. “Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There’s no escape. I’m God’s ...

Marx’s theory of alienation delineates how workers become estranged from the products of their labour, the labour process, their own human potential and from one another under capitalist modes of ...

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Work alienation denotes a multifaceted experience of estrangement that employees feel in relation to their tasks, colleagues, organisation and the broader socio‐economic framework. Rooted in classical ...

Aging, an inevitable part of the human experience, is often accompanied by significant social, psychological, and physical changes. The concept of alienation, a term originally rooted in Marxist ...