Concept
Social alienation
Overview
Social alienation is a person's feeling of disconnection from a group – whether friends, family, or wider society – with which the individual has an affiliation. Such alienation has been described as "a condition in social relationships reflected by (1) a low degree of integration or common values and (2) a high degree of distance or isolation (3a) between individuals, or (3b) between an individual and a group of people in a community or work environment [enumeration added]". It is a sociological concept developed by several classical and contemporary theorists. 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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On the other hand, as no society is ever in complete equilibrium, this harmony will never be perfect and may often be widely departed from. In what is called a single community, if it reach a considerable bulk, there are (in other words) often a number of minor societies, more or less thwarting and modifying each other; and different observers, who belong in the main to one or other of these subordinate groups, may…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Philosophy of Mind
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According to this principle, any one who wanted to consider himself as an isolated individual, self-sufficing and independent of others, could only be utterly wretched. He could not even continue to exist, for finding the whole earth appropriated by others while he had only himself, how could he get the means of subsistence?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
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The negative effect on feeling (unpleasantness) is pathological, like every influence on feeling and like every feeling generally. But as an effect of the consciousness of the moral law, and consequently in relation to a supersensible cause, namely, the subject of pure practical reason which is the supreme lawgiver, this feeling of a rational being affected by inclinations is called humiliation (intellectual…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Practical Reason
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Philosophers who discussed Social alienation
Related ideas
- Family
- Emotion
- Georg Simmel
- Max Stirner
- Gnosticism
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Hamlet
- Philosophy
- The Ego and Its Own
- Contemplation
- Power (social and political)
- The Waste Land
- Individualism
- Idealism
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Jacques Lacan
- Jürgen Habermas
- Feeling
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Human condition
- Slavoj Žižek
- Karl Marx
- Language
- Marx's theory of alienation
Place in the tradition
Part of Aesthetics.