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	The Arcane and Nomadic Science
		Such attempts to overcome alienation ignore the very social relations that caused one to be alienated in the first place.
		The degree of alienation experienced by those who lived in the time of the advent of print capitalism was not as acute as the alienation between people in today’s massified societies.
		The nature of fame has changed along with the level of social alienation and the technological means of communication, a Hollywood movie star’s name and image is known by many more millions of people than the most famous early European novelists were in their time.
	www.geocities.com /kk_abacus/kka/nomad.html (2369 words)

	A L I E N A T I O N (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Alienation in school, family, and workplace are especially important because these are three main institutions in one's own life.
		Alienation in school embodies the following aspects: first, the traditional educational system is not suitable for the modern education; second, school performance and educational attainment are discriminated between the poor and the rich.
		Affluent students, through their parents and other well placed contacts, are more likely than poor students to learn how to present themselves to prospective employers, and to know exactly how to plug into the labour market.
	www.langara.bc.ca /sociology/studentgallery/1120Groups/Group13 (2584 words)

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		The ordinance, however, states that owners of irrigated lands after the commencement of construction of field channels to irrigate any land from major or medium irrigation projects, will be barred from transferring ownership of their lands either by sale, lease, mortgage or exchange without obtaining prior permission of the irrigation officer.
		The government is also not seeking a complete ban on alienation of irrigated lands and the irrigation officers to be appointed by the government in exceptional cases will grant exemptions but such prior permissions will be in accordance with the guidelines to be notified from time to time, he said.
		The minister pointed out that alienation of agricultural lands was widespread in the command areas of Upper Krishna Project with Gulbarga district alone accounting for sale of 51,144 acres of farm lands since 2001-02 till March this year.
	economictimes.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/xml/uncomp/articleshow?msid=16681 (1378 words)

	The Implications Of Physical
		Hyper-suburbs are highly affluent housing enclaves found deep within the bowels of rural districts in the U.S. I argue that the increasing physical and spatial fragmentation of U.S. society—as seen in the rise of the gated community' and the hyper-suburb—along class lines reflects and fosters a politics and economics of separation and division.
		The affluent suburbs and hyper-suburbs are increasingly determining and shaping U.S. politics (Cook, 1997; Dreier and Moberg, 1996; Goldsmith and Blakely, 1992; Lehrer, 1998; Longman, 1998; Marcuse, 1997a, 1997b, 1997c; Mingione, 1996; Musante, 1998; Wilson, 1987, 1991).
		Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total; it pervades the relationship of man to his work, to the things he consumes, to the state, to his fellow man, and to himself.
	www.marshall.edu /jrcp/RodriquezSI.htm (8730 words)

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		In his analysis of capitalist wage-labor, Marx [1992] drew clear connections between alienation in the moral and philosophical senses, and alienation in the narrower sense applied to property-rights.
		Workers are alienated from members of the capitalist class, since they certainly cannot relate with the latter any more freely than they can with each other.
		The 'opposite' of alienation must be a kind of comprehension that is the fullest possible grasping or appropriation of things, not only intellectually but emotionally and sensually, and in concious, self-directed activity.
	web.rollins.edu /~eschutz/Alien.htm (1487 words)

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		In this way, persons who are alienated from others, from self and from their work or school can feel that they belong to a community, even if this community is partly or even mostly in their imagination (Anderson 1983).
		Just at the nonconformist boys, the "lads," are alienated from their teachers in the isolated mode, being too distant from them, the conformist students are alienated in the engulfed mode, too suffocatingly close to the teachers.
		Welfare could be an enormous help in decreasing alienation for the least affluent segments of society, in that it offers a measure of economic and health security for those who are disabled or unable to find work.
	www.soc.ucsb.edu /faculty/scheff/5.html (5663 words)

	Chartist - on alienation
		An individual’s labour, which is at the core of their self expression, their individuality and their confirmation of their humanity, becomes separated from them and turned into a commodity which is alienated from them and simply bought and sold in the market place.
		To go beyond this, however, one has to ask the question of whether alienation is simply something that happens to us when we are at work and not something which infects our whole life, including our consumption as well as whatever role we play in production.
		Alienation now so permeates modern Western society that it seems as though we cannot be ourselves even in the inner reaches of our private lives.
	www.chartist.org.uk /articles/econsoc/jul03smith.htm (1347 words)

	CBC News - Viewpoint: Larry Zolf
		Modern western alienation centred on Brian Mulroney's acceptance of a Quebec company's bid for a major Defence Department contract over a Winnipeg company's, though the Winnipeg bid was the lower.
		The result of western alienation was the destruction of the Progressive Conservative party in 1993 and the ultimate new Conservative party under Harper.
		Winnipeg is the birthplace of violent western alienation.
	www.cbc.ca /news/viewpoint/vp_zolf/20040517.html (1038 words)

	Alienation and Poverty: A Case Study
		Several writers have indicated that alienation is an important aspect of ghetto and lower-class life or that alienation is inversely related to economic status (Baldwin 1963, Silberman 1964, Coleman 1964, and Middleton 1963).
		While the results of this study tend to indicate that alienation influences a person's ability to break the poverty cycle, it is also clear that apportunity (race, age and sex) as well as available resources (education) influence one's ability to advance economically.
		The writers are, nonetheless, putting forth the argument that while alienation is riot the only factor influencing the cycle of poverty, it is a significant factor among a multiplicity of factors which must be reckoned with in any attempt to positively change the economic, educational and social conditions of the poor.
	www.ag.fvsu.edu /Publicat/Ag-Economics/agecon5.htm (2905 words)

	Foundations of Meaning in Human Life
		Marx suggested that alienation is a structural feature of capitalism, and that solidarity would be a structural feature of socialism.
		Seeman’s review (1975) of studies of alienation did not establish formal definitions, but instead reported results derived from theory, on the one hand, and from studies using standardized scales, on the other.
		Although he did not use the term alienation, it is clearly implied in his study of suicide.
	www.soc.ucsb.edu /faculty/scheff/32.html (8068 words)

	Alienation of Muslims is neither self-imposed nor imported -DAWN - International; 02 April, 2004
		At either end of this polarization we are seeing a level of alienation that bodes ill for British society.
		For the Muslim part, their sense of grievance has to be taken on board by the government, its institutions and the media in a meaningful way.
		Three years on, professional affluent Muslims, whose lives had seen little, if any, of the social deprivation and societal exclusion that the Cantle report identified, can tell of discrimination and hatred levelled against them.
	www.dawn.com /2004/04/02/int7.htm (999 words)

	DIALECTICAL MARXISM: The Writings of Bertell Ollman
		It is the alienated quality of social life of the individuals who embody the aforesaid economic functions.
		All these aspects of class—place/function, group, alienated social relation, and there are others—are mutually dependent, but their relative importance varies with the problem and period under consideration.
		Oddly enough, Marx never offered the workers' alienation as part of the explanation for the continued inability of the mass of the workers to become fully class conscious, just as he never introduced the progress many workers have made in becoming class conscious as a factor qualifying their alienation.
	www.nyu.edu /projects/ollman/docs/di_ch09.php (11204 words)

	A Guide to the Parental Alienation Syndrome by Stan Hayward
		The Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) is the systematic denigration by one parent by the other with the intent of alienating the child against the other parent.
		The purpose of alienation is usually to gain or retain custody without the involvement of the non-custodial parent (NCP) The alienation usually extends to the NCP's family and friends as well.
		Having alienated the child, the mother will then deny that she has had any influence on the child, though she will refuse to have contact with the father and his group.
	www.fact.on.ca /Info/pas/haywar99.htm (13024 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - affluent alienation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		MSN Encarta - Search Results - affluent alienation
		Alienation, estrangement from other people, society, or work.
		Alienation : pictures of artworks with themes of alienation
	encarta.msn.com /affluent+alienation.html (113 words)

	Oshawa Autoworkers: Integration or Alienation?
		Indeed, the simple theory of the economic determination of politics which is implied by this thesis was regularly invoked throughout the decade of the 1950s to explain what then seemed to be the secular decline of the Labour Party as a political force.
		The chief questions here are whether expressions of working-class consciousness can be found in terms of generalized convictions that a class system exists, workers' own class self-identification and subjective position within an objective class schema and convictions which indicate a belief in their class' collective interests (in direct opposition to hegemonic class interests).
		While MacKinnon tested the embourgeoisement thesis during a time of significant growth, I will be testing for embourgeoisement during a period of immense change; the working-population of GM was 25,000 in 1985 and dropped substantially to 11,500 employees in 2000, the year of data collection.
	leo.oise.utoronto.ca /~rroth/AFFLUENT-intro.htm (4010 words)

	WORK
		The starting point for this discussion paper is a perception that academics and activists now give alienation a smaller part in their discussions of working life than they did between the 1960s and the 1980s.
		Her five passing mentions of “alienation” indicate scant acquaintance with the vision that work should be rewarding in every dimension.
		Alienation in the service industry is ritualised as “Have a nice day” and first-name approaches to total strangers.
	www.alphalink.com.au /~loge27/work/work_alienation.htm (12831 words)

	ISA - XVI ISA World Congress of Sociology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Papers are sought that bring alienation theory into the global, consumerist and rationalised late-capitalist world of the present and seek to explain the position of the alienated person.
		Alienation for Marx was seen in powerlessness, fragmented social ties and dehumanization.
		This session will be devoted to examining the nature of alienation in the new forms of work organizations, the forms alienation takes in third world sweat shops as well as the gated communities of the affluent first world, the alienation from Nature as seen in our ecological crisis, and diverse forms of popular culture.
	www.ucm.es /info/isa/congress2006/rc/rc36_durban.htm (945 words)

	Issues in S and T, Summer 1997, Social Change and Science Policy
		At the very least, the direct contribution of science and technology to the general quality of life in affluent societies may have reached a state of diminishing returns.
		The promise that more science will lead to more societal benefits may increasingly be at odds with the experience of individuals who find their lives changing in ways they cannot control and in directions they do not desire.
		Alienation reflects the inability of individuals and groups to control the impacts of RandD on their lives.
	www.nap.edu /issues/13.4/sarewi.htm (2234 words)

	Extracurricular Participation And Student Engagement
		Although differences in availability of extracurricular opportunities between less affluent and more affluent schools were small or nonexistent, students of low socioeconomic status (SES) were less likely to participate in activities than were high SES students(3).
		Some researchers have suggested that the social context of the school might have a positive or negative influence on student behavior, depending on whether the individual student is in the relative minority or majority in the school (Karweit, 1983).
		These data include, however, that regardless of their socioeconomic background, students' participation was not related to the social context of the school--low SES students participated at the same rates whether they attended less affluent or more affluent schools, and so did high SES students.
	nces.ed.gov /pubs95/web/95741.asp (1429 words)

	ZNet Commentary: Money Flies Across Borders
		New Britain Avenue in Hartford is one of those familiar American streets that bristle with urban alienation: from the fast food franchises to the fast oil change franchises, from the liquor stores to the gas stations.
		The most affluent among the migrants are not the most generous.
		Unwilling to accept the terms of alienation, they fought back from 1999 to 2002, and made some gains.
	www.zmag.org /sustainers/content/2005-05/07prashad.cfm (1634 words)

	California’s Winter of Hate
		“The alienation of the young is emphasized, while the alienation of their elders may be wholly overlooked,” Mead wrote in Culture and Commitment (1970).
		Mead’s warning, amply validated over the past 30 years, means the standard tactic among American institutions of promoting their agendas by inciting fear of young people (often disguised as “concern”) is a dangerous game.
		Nowhere does the report show that school behavior problems are rising (reliable measures show they’re falling), nor does it mention that suburban adults’ own rising epidemics of drug abuse, domestic violence, family breakup and crime are more shocking than anything suburban (or urban) youth are doing.
	home.earthlink.net /~mmales/yt-calif.htm (776 words)

	Gardiner
		The full force of political economy effects the poor the most, while the affluent are subject to more insidious regimes of control that may even attack heteronormativity as a consumer strategy.
		And yet, some cultural theorists would criticize the assumptions she has made here, that intellectuals may in some sense evade alienation, and that their role is to designate one social group as ‘dispossessed’.
		Marx has never suggested that any group or individual is free of alienation; we are all alienated, it is just that the affluent enjoys the fruits of the worker’s labours.
	culturemachine.tees.ac.uk /Reviews/rev11.htm (3734 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline of American Literature: American Prose Since 1945: Realism and ...
		Yet loneliness at the top was a dominant theme; the faceless corporate man became a cultural stereotype in Sloan Wilson's best-selling novel The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955).
		Generalized American alienation came under the scrutiny of sociologist David Riesman in The Lonely Crowd (1950).
		Economist and academician John Kenneth Galbraith contributed The Affluent Society (1958).
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/LIT/ch8_p3.htm (487 words)

	UPNE \| Exile in the Kingdom
		A haunting novel of alienation and youth in a culture bred on casual violence.
		A conscientious student and star of the basketball team, he lives in an affluent household and enjoys the latest in electronic marvels.
		He believed then that he was tracing a progression which he saw as inevitable, an increasing alienation in our children that could have only one logical end point.
	www.upne.com /1-58465-148-2.html (1106 words)

	The Moviegoer Summary & Study Guide by Walker Percy
		Percy shares this general concern with the European existentialists, and his concern with mankind's alienation from God is shared by Christian existentialists such as Kierkegaard and Marcel.
		But Percy has made clear in interviews and essays that he believes mankind's alienation (or "exile," as the Catholic prayer Salve Regina expresses it) is the ancient, central Christian doctrine of the Fall.
		Since Percy believes all forms of alienation stem from a central Fall from grace, it is not always possible to separate an individual's attempt to overcome his alienation from himself with his attempts to overcome his alienation from others, from society, and from God.
	www.bookrags.com /short/moviegoer (248 words)

	About the Typology: Energized Democrats Backing Clinton
		The Times Mirror Center in 1987 developed a unique voter classification system based on three major elements -- party affiliation, political participation, and personal values and attitudes -- and using the statistical technique called "cluster analysis." The new typology in 1995 is built on the same foundation, with minor modifications.
		Nine values and attitudes were measured, including attitudes toward government, environmentalism, business, social welfare, social policy issues, religion, race relations, the military, and feelings of political alienation.
		- Seculars (8%): Highly educated, sophisticated, affluent, mostly white baby boomers and Generation X. The most socially tolerant group, driven by social issues, it is the only one to embrace the "liberal" label.
	people-press.org /reports/display.php3?PageID=420 (947 words)

	Catholic Social Thought on Labor-Management Issues, 1960-1980 24 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Since the end of World War II, scholars and journalists assumed the offspring of European immigrants had lost their identity in the "melting pot" and were well entrenched in the middle class, while the plight of the new urban immigrants - the non-white minorities - deserved priority attention.
		While admitting the nation had reached a dangerous impasse on these issues, Higgins refused to be pessimistic or to despair over the ability or willingness of Americans to subordinate self-interest to citizenship or to allow a preoccupation with private concerns to deflect the population from public obligations.
		Additionally, such allegations run the risk of alienating Blacks in general and Black workers in particular, at a time when unions are more important to Blacks than ever in the past.
	www.archives.nd.edu /psl/psl024.htm (5040 words)

	Among Affluent Students, a Culture of Disengagement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Students with low "adversity" scores were relatively affluent, and their parents were college graduates.
		Thus, even white students with high adversity scores partied less and were more engaged in academic and campus activities than the most economically secure white students.
		Students whose parents are highly educated and affluent are more likely to drink, use drugs, and party frequently, and are less likely to spend time studying, than are less-privileged students.
	cshe.berkeley.edu /events/disengagement.html (1580 words)

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