This article shows to what extent the new situation in our late-modern societies can see a further deepening of social control typical soft totalitarianism we experience globalised democracies, through mechanisms already denounced by Arendt her The Origins Totalitarianism (1951): promotion rootlessness and superfluity. In particular, paper focus on Eliot (1927) called hollow man or philosophy s...

This study investigated the association between Iranian university students' perception of their fathers and their object-relation and defense mechanism. Participants were 438 students between 18-22 years from Allameh Tabatabae University, who agreed to fill the Fatherhood Scale out (Dick, 2004), Bell object relation inventory and defense mechanism style, and defense style questionnaire (DSQ-40...

Children who have been programmed by one parent to be alienated from the other parent are commonly seen in the context of child-custody disputes. Such programming is designed to strengthen the position of the programming parent in a court of law. Many evaluators use the term parental alienation syndrome (PAS) to refer to the disorder engendered in such children. In contrast, there are evaluator...

Change in the policy and ideology governing social health care has been much debated Western welfare states, including Finland, where public sector witnessed a shift towards market managerial climate of austerity. These changes affect organisations as well individual workers. Social workers implement policies their daily work, are thus positioned between clients. This may expose them to feeling...

Two hundred and thirty men, being treated for ICD-10 diagnosed dependence on alcohol, opioids or both, were studied 2-4 weeks after the last use of alcohol or opioids. Alienation Scale, Sensation Seeking Scale and Muliphasic Personality Questionnaire (MPQ), and selected sociodemographic and family history data were studied. All three groups showed high alienation (more in opioid cases), high se...

This paper implements a unified model of individual abstention and vote choice to analyze policy-based alienation and indifference in Brazil’s 2002 presidential election. The results indicate that both alienation and indifference depressed turnout, with indifference contributing slightly more to voter abstention. Also, the determinants of alienation and indifference differed considerably, the f...

Alienation has been recently revived as a central concept in critical theory. Current debates, however, tend to focus on normative rather than explanatory issues. In this paper, I confront the latter and advance an account of alienation that bears mechanisms bring it about order locate distinctive social psychological fact dissolve paradox seems involve. particular, argue can be explained disru...

Arlie Russell Hochschild’s influential emotional labour thesis in The Managed Heart (1983) exposes and opposes the harm wrought by the commodification of human feelings as customer service, and complements contemporary anticapitalist writing with an enduring influence and political relevance that is underpinned by Hochschild's application of Marx’s alienation theory. Critics have sought to blun...