Social Alienation
Alienation is essentially a sociological concept developed by several classical and contemporary theorists (esp., Emile Durkheim, 1951, 1984; Eric Fromm, 1941, 1955; Karl Marx, 1846, 1867; Georg Simmel, 1950, 1971; Melvin Seeman, 1959; and Kalekin-Fishman, 1998) and is "a condition in social relationships reflected by a low degree of integration or common values and a high degree of distance or isolation between individuals, or between an individual and a group of people in a community or work environment." The concept has many discipline-specific uses, and can refer both to a personal psychological state (subjectively) and to a type of social relationship (objectively).
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