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Horney, K. (1950).  Neurosis and human growth: the struggle toward self-realization.
"If the word 'depersonalization' did not already have a specific psychiatric meaning, it would be a good term for what alienation from the self essentially is: it is a depersonalizing, and therefore a devitalizing process." (p. 161)
Shorris, E. (1984).  Scenes from Corporate.
"The men and women who work in middle management and technical jobs in corporations suffer from fear, but not from cowardice. Their ability to endure fear in the struggle to achieve happiness as it has been defined for them proves that they are not cowards. They lack options. They may move from corporation to corporation, but the systems in which they live do not change with the change of employment. As they grow older, even that illusory option disappears. Then they must choose between human alienation and their accustomed standard of living." (p. 284)
Hodson, R., & Sullivan T. A. (1995).  Social Organization of Work.
"Alienation occurs when work provides inadequately for human needs for identity and meaning. Work is alienating to the extent that one does it only from economic necessity, not from its intrinsic pleasures." (p. 56)
"A common response to alienating work is passive resistance through making work into a game (Burawoy, 2000), restricting one`s output (Roy, 1952), or focusing on aspects of work tangential to the main productive activity (Collinson, 2003). For instance, workers often adjust to alienating situations by focusing on interactions with their peers. Managers label such behavioral responses 'poor performance.' However, such behaviors do not necessarily result from incompetence or laziness: rather, they may be straightforward responses to having a job that is tedious, repetitive, or alienating. These responses are difficult to predict from workers' levels of job satisfaction or commitment. Workers who are very committed to their work may be the ones most likely to resist alienating conditions. Those who are less committed may simply exit or grudgingly suffer in silence." (p. 68)

See also: bureaucracy, organization man, objectification, rejection, false self

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alienation

  • Concept: alienation
    • preferred: alienation
    • definition: the feeling of being alienated from other people
    • related: bureaucracy
    • related: organization_man
    • related: objectification
    • related: rejection
    • related: false_self
    • closeMatch: http://purl.org/vocabularies/princeton/wn30/synset-alienation-noun-1.rdf
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    • linked content:
      • sense: alienation
      • sense: disaffection
      • sense: estrangement
      • alienation
      • in scheme: http://purl.org/vocabularies/princeton/wn30/
      • gloss: the feeling of being alienated from other people
      • hyponym of: http://purl.org/vocabularies/princeton/wn30/synset-dislike-noun-2
      • synset id: 107502387
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