Alienation in Today’s Society
[2023-11-07 21:50:58]
In today's society and the world, alienation is widespread and can be seen everywhere. We mainly live in consumer culture, dangerous, dirty and low wage work is a global standard. Over the years, everyone's interest turned to making money, and unfortunately the traditional values no longer support it. In general, we are separated from nature as human beings and eventually alienated.
It has been discovered and has been seen that modern technology may lead to alienation. For example, children in school age are marginalized daily. If a child can not purchase a "new / latest" gadget at a school, such as an iPad, iPhone, game system, there is not the latest one and it looks different, so it is alienated from other colleagues. In addition, another example of alienation is that children are selected because children are wearing clothes without brands, unlike others. They are automatically judged and treated differently
Finally, modern society has some shocking and growing tendencies. For example, school shooting and killing several years ago was unprecedented. But they are becoming more common today and all over the world. High suicide rates are a result of alienation. Since they do not satisfy the pressure of "norms", they feel that they are less alienated from society and themselves to the extent that they commit suicide after all.
The example I cited is only a part of alienation symptoms / indicators in our society. The situation and production of the workplace have generally been improved over the years, but the work is still very human. In general, people are alienated from their basic lives and society.
Marx's alienation theory is based on the relationship between workers and production means. It outlines the four main aspects of alienation of workers in today's society: alienation from labor products, alienation from work processes, deprivation of creativity, and alienation from others. Marx developed this theory in 1844, but it is actually more suitable for today's mass production, a developed society. In order to evaluate whether I am marginalized, I will use the indices related to each of the four categories supported by Marx 's first theory. In addition, research on work satisfaction is done frequently; I will use those indicators to judge whether they are alienated.
Today, the concept of alienation becomes part of the common language and is widely used in the media. For example, you can see which groups are marginalized by society, young people are alienated from mainstream values. Through the use of this concept, we have a sense of separation between the group and the society, but this concept is traditionally sociology, expressing deep alienation more than most modern uses, mainly by Karl Marx It was used to do. IMO)
Karl Marx 's alienism argument shows a tough view on capitalist society and inhumanization of this society against workers. Marx 's theory of alienation means alienation between humans and society, according to Marx, they say that they created this alienation. Along with the development of society, humans gradually began to feel that this is not their creation, they do not feel like home in such places. Marx's view on the alienation of workers is that workers are deprived of all the inherent human qualities inherent in the production process which in turn alienates him and is alienated from what he did or did That means that. Marx's theory of alienation has roughly four elements, but in this thesis, in order to derive the core meaning of Marx's theory, we examine each of them in detail, and show that theory and modern society .