Marx's Theory of Alienation In Sociology

Focus has again shifted from mere ‘happiness’ to the more meaningful concept of ‘value’, in an attempt to reconcile the alienation that Marx sensed between man and his God, his work and his fellow creatures. Rather than seek transcendence through a journey into the self (as the Romantics encouraged), the very notion of the self was now seen as dang

Unions and the state might have been outdated, but nothing was nurtured to replace them. Instead, all that was left was individual, atomised power: power that could only be mobilised by appeal to self-interest, and could only be expressed in the choice between options, not the power to shape those options.

Parce que la production sociale (celle du nécessaire et du superflu) exige de moins en moins de « travail » et distribue de moins en moins de salaires, il devient de plus en plus difficile de se procurer un revenu suffisant et stable au moyen d’un travail payé. Dans le discours du capital, on attribue cette difficulté au fait que « le travail manqu

One important new idea that emerged from Marx for our purposes is as follows: we saw work as an activity that was supposed to endow us with happiness and a sense of humanity. This was a strange new concept, and although it sprang up as a reaction against capitalism, there is no doubt that it is now part of the capitalist creed. How many of us talk