The body uncanny
Fredrik Svenaeus in Phenomenological Bioethics, 2017
What does it mean to be bodily alienated in addition to having an experience of my own body as something whose ways I do not fully control? It means that the body is experienced as foreign and strange to me. In my becoming bodily alienated, the foreignness of the body reminds me of a state of being at home with it that is no longer present and that I desire to have reinstated. Alienation is usually portrayed as an experience of becoming foreign to one’s life in terms of the things one does and thinks (Guignon 2004). The body is my basic home-being, and therefore alienation within the bodily domain is a particularly uncanny experience, compared to other ways of being alienated (Frank 2002; Slatman 2014). A focus on action and thinking are common threads of Marxist or existentialist frameworks of the alienated life, but alienation can also be an experience of foreignness within the domains of embodiment, as I tried to show in chapter two with the examples taken from Gustafsson (1990).
Studying aging in families
George E. Dickinson, Brenda S. Sanders in Aging in the Family, 2018
Most research begins from a deductive point of view. With deduction, for example, an individual might hypothesize, based on available literature, that locus of control (whether one believes she/he has control over events or whether events have control over her/him) is correlated (related) with longevity. The lower the feeling of control (alienation), the higher will be the probability that the individual’s life will be shortened: a negative correlation, as such feelings of alienation would likely contribute to depression. Deducing from this larger, general statement, it might be concluded from research on specific categories of persons with a low feeling of control (e.g., women, older adults, poverty-stricken individuals), that their lives would be shortened. Thus, the researcher begins with a theoretical orientation and gleans from this a more specific, testable hypothesis.
The potential and limitations of the vulnerability approach for labour law
Daniel Bedford, Jonathan Herring in Embracing Vulnerability, 2020
In some senses, the concept of ‘vulnerability’ reflects labour law’s oldest traditions and deepest concerns. The ‘founding fathers’ of British and German labour law, Hugo Sinzheimer (1927) and Otto Kahn-Freund (Davis and Freedland 1983, 69), both recognised a set of systematic vulnerabilities affecting workers. They were heavily influenced by Marx’s ideas about the ‘alienation’ and ‘subordination’ of workers under a capitalist mode of production. They were concerned that under this system, human beings are reduced to goods that can be exploited for profit; they are essentially slaves to the power of capital. Furthermore, the capitalist system creates an inequality of bargaining power between employers and employees, based on the ownership of the means of production by employers and the reliance of employees on their engagement in the capitalist system to meet their subsistence needs (ibid., 17).
The role of interpersonal alienation in the relationship between social media addiction and learning burnout among Chinese secondary school students
Published in Children's Health Care, 2023
Sun Wenkai, Wei Xiaohong, Xu Huiwen, Lu Huishi, Sun Liao, Huang Fei
Alienation is a social disorder, a complex emotion consisting of negative emotions due to individuals experiencing alienation, divorce, and disharmony with other individuals, organizations, and environments. The main manifestations of alienation are the individual’s internal feelings of emotion and psychology, social alienation, and indifference among others, and unfamiliarity when dealing with people. Alienation is classified into interpersonal, social, and environmental alienation. Interpersonal alienation refers to negative psychological experiences such as forgetfulness, isolation, and alienation experienced by individuals from interpersonal networks during interactions (Yang, Zhang, & Huang, 2002). Adolescence is the peak period for the occurrence of alienation, and most adolescents experience different degrees of alienation during their development (Brown, Higgins, Pierce, Hong, & Thoma, 2003; Calabrese & Poe, 1991).
The impact of work alienation on organizational health: A field study in health sector
Published in International Journal of Healthcare Management, 2019
Özlem Özer, Özgür Uğurluoğlu, Meltem Saygılı, Cuma Sonğur
The concept of work alienation was firstly treated by Karl Marx with his work ‘Alienated labor’ in 1864. Marx based primary source of alienation on economic facts in his work and stated that the employees alienated to the work, because they are seen as a slave or a physical entity operated for more labor by the capital owners [1–3]. Another scientist who added the term of work alienation to the literature is George Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel. Hegel treated the alienation concept in his work named ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’ and depended the reasons of alienation on personal characteristics and inner conflict more than economic facts [1]. American sociologist, Melvin Seaman brought a new dimension to the alienation concept with his article published in 1959 and handled the concept with more accurate definitions by expanding it [4,5]. Handling the concept of alienation from a socio-political perspective, Seaman [6] ordered the dimensions of the concept as powerlessness, meaninglessness, isolation, self-estrangement, and normlessness.
Alienation, Quality of Life, and DBS for Depression
Published in AJOB Neuroscience, 2018
Peter Zuk, Amy L. McGuire, Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz
When an individual experiences alienation, it is typically alienation from something. In other words, feelings of alienation typically have objects. Therefore, a key question for ongoing work in this area is: If DBS does in fact itself contribute to alienation, from which kinds of things does it alienate the patient? Answering this question empirically will require distinguishing different potential objects of alienation. Without taking a position on the empirical question of whether DBS does in fact cause alienation, we sketch different possible objects of alienation in order to inform future research.
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