On the Meaning of Alienation

Seeman, M. (1959). On the Meaning of Alienation. American Sociological Review, 24(6), 783-791.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1959

Volume

24

Issue

6

Pages

783-791

DOI

10.2307/2088565

DOI registrant

SAGE Publications

Link

https://doi.org/10.2307/2088565

Cited from

philosophy

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

Primes

• Alienation
  • … in three directions: (1) existentialist philosophy (Heidegger's fallenness, Sartre's bad faith), grounding the loss of meaningful agency in the existential condition rather than capitalism; (2) sociology of modernity (Durkheim's anomie , Weber's rationalization , and Seeman's (1959) operationalized typology

Mechanisms

• Alienation Relation-Mapping Workshop
  • The relation types give it a vocabulary — Seeman's classic varieties of alienation (powerlessness, meaninglessness, normlessness, isolation, self-estrangement) map almost directly onto the links the workshop looks for.

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