Examples of alienation

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At the same time, its ability to promote and sustain development is being diminished by the alienation of the naturally expanding future generation.
The loss of self, as we moderns are acutely aware, is a particularly problematic theme because it opens up the possibility for alienation and exploitation.
The alienation experienced as a result of deteriorating physical circumstances offers a daily tangible reminder of the body's limitations to the outside.
Alienation and uniformity were taking place in parallel with the functional separation of human living space which was previously mixed.
Workers experience exploitation and alienation within a localized particularized context that gives local shape and contour to how workers respond to that exploitation.
Despite being born into a fairly well-to-do family, the harsh deprivations he suffered in his youth likely planted in him feelings of alienation.
Another more frequently chosen possibility was to stress (as the source of alienation) the leisure sphere itself.
There is ample evidence to support this view of alienation through modern technologies.
They often suffer from depression caused by loneliness and alienation.
Both groups have cause to express a sense of alienation from land and from language.
At the extreme, rejection of the metropolitan leads to fruitful revolt and alienation results in emancipation from norms and conventions.
Was the regime aware of the growing alienation of its youth from the official ideology and, if so, what did it do about it?
No research to date has looked at levels of alienation among youth as a function of exposure to community violence.
Talk is cheap: sarcasm, alienation, and the evolution of language.
The sense of isolation and detachment reinforced their feelings of powerlessness and alienation.
Silencing is likely to exacerbate feelings of alienation, mistrust, and bitterness, and confirm veterans' sense of futility of caring or acting.
However, this loyalty was not recognized, leading to widespread alienation.
As illustrated below, such literal representations of resistance and metaphoric 'difference' lie at the heart of many instances of space and/or alienation appropriation.
Such thinking also directly ties into the general sense of black alienation as described earlier in this essay.
Eviction from the royal presence, the fountainhead of favour, was naturally resented, and physical distance soon became an index of political alienation.
However, when coercive force degenerates into state violence it produces more alienation than it overcomes.
The plight and alienation of this group is the most important neglected factor in the analysis of the urban protests of 1961-63.
The implications of the new situation, however, could have meant alienation of the province from the center.
The idealized beloved and the empirical self constitute the illusory dyad of alienation.
He raises the impor tant question of whether cultural alienation via language technicalization can be controlled, but he fails to see the inherent contradiction here.
More threatening to non-racial nation-building is the intra-black division and alienation caused by the government's tendency to pick and chose among the ' patriotic ' black bourgeoisie.
Scientists are free to leave many more questions unanswered, so science can afford the greater alienation from human affairs that goes with precisification.
Similarly, the chapter on alienation used higher education as evidence of increasing alienation in white-collar labour.
With increased automation, there is a resultant alienation of the human supervisor not only spatially, but also cognitively.
The gothic genre offered a language of "terror, disgust, [and] alienation" (3), which became interwoven into the "language of race" (232).
The consequentialist can possess the character trait proper to genuine friendship; the friendly consequentialist is strained neither by conceptual incompatibility nor by psychological alienation.
Curiously enough these alienations engendered very few outcries of injustice in the sources.
The pressures influencing men to alienate lands help to explain the loss of seignorial control over alienations, and the emergence of tenant ownership.
From the 1220s chief lords had been able to license alienations by their tenants to the church, as the king was doing in respect of lands alienated by his tenants-in-chief.
First we must consider the possibility of alienation between human beings.
We shall come to discover the extent of this dilution in our investigation of alienation.
The alienation of regalian property and rights need not necessarily imply the disintegration of royal control.
The word 'alienation' has been used in a wide variety of ways, 9 but its derivation and early usage make its main meaning reasonably clear.
Should substantial sections of the population feel excluded, then there are dangers of alienation, lawlessness and damaging social divisions.
Marxists wish to realize a society free of human alienation.
Expressed is an alienation, too great distancing between the work and where decisions can be made.
Alienation is not confined to our young people, but is rampant among them.
After ten years of brooding and alienation, he puts a .45 automatic to his head and ends his emotional pain.
Paradoxically, the rise of an indigenous heritage industry caused the alienation of the local people from their built heritage.
In this case, the inappropriate responses and emotions may lead to further experience of negative emotions and social alienation.
Overall attachment scores are derived by summing the trust and communication items with reverse-scored alienation items.
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