to the extent that a society is to work, there exist a need for a cooperative process, including weber’s and merton’s note of common means and goals. but at the same time, there exist no societal process without involving conflict; (conflict in a dynamic and dialectical sense.) dealing with this problematic situation the emergence of “division of labor”, as a compulsive social differentiation, ...

Objective: We mainly sought to understand the relationship among college students' spiritual well-being, life satisfaction, economic status, and alienation. Methods: A sample of 292 undergraduate students (187 females and 105 males) between the ages of 18 and 26 years were selected using the cluster sampling method. Then, they completed measurement questionnaires of alienation, satisfaction wit...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of job stress and cynicism on work alienation in nurses. Three distinct contributions beyond the existing literature are examined. First, cynicism is positioned as a mediator in the relationship between job stress and work alienation. Second, the differences in job stress, cynicism and work alienation according to demographic variable...

this article describes and explains some theoretical challenges to political ideologies and seeks to offer some proper responses to these challenges. in this regard, the following ideas are concentrated: 1) the political ideologies have their own subjective and objective motives and their own cognitive basics. the more these motives and basics change the more the political ideologies modifies. ...

this paper aims at studying the effects of work/family conflict and family/ work conflict as a result of work alienation. some theories of goffman, duxbury and higgins, kirchmeyer and cohen, merton, inglehart and faunce are applied in the study. the research is conducted through a survey method. stratified random sampling has been used for selection of the samples. main data collection method f...

the purpose of this article is to study the factors contributing to the political alienation of the students at shiraz university. to explain the concept of alienation, geyer’s theoretical framework in the social psychology was used. the statistical universe of the research consisted of 6822 persons, of which 400 were taken randomly, using couckran formula. the results show that the variables s...

This research evaluated the effects of involvement of adolescents in community service activities on levels of alienation. It was proposed that alienation could be reduced through the implementation of a model which utilized community service activities to facilitate adolescent access to adult society, development of responsibility, collaborative and cooperative work, and control over planning ...

This paper discusses Marx's concept of alienated (or estranged) labour, focusing mainly on his account in the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. This concept is frequently taken to be a moral notion based on a concept of universal human nature. This view is criticized and it is argued that the concept of alienation should rather be interpreted in the light of Hegelian historical id...