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From: Dictionary of the Social Sciences
Date: 20020101
Author:Craig Calhoun
alienation
A social or psychological state of separation from self, others, social life generally, or the products or processes of one's labor. The term enters modern thought with Jean‐Jacques Rousseau 's account of the emergence of society, which divorces man from an idyllic state of nature. Georg Hegel developed the concept into a more complex theory of history, and Karl Marx offered the most influential account. Marx describes how the capitalist labor process subjects workers not only to the appropriation of their labor by others, but to a systematic reduction in their ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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