Alienation Reconsidered: The Strength Of Weak Ties Analysis

In our first unit of sociology, I felt I could relate with the term social network, " The term social network refers to the people who are linked to one another(Henslin,116.)"Social networks include everyone you know. I can relate to social networking because I 'm on a social salsa team. When I joined my dance team , we all had the same passion, the love of dance. After a few years of performing and hanging with the same clique all the time for they have the same interests as me. After a while we all seemed to cluster together and they are now more than just a clique to me they are my fiends.

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, society warrants alienation and isolation to remain a constant underlying effect of social conformity. Alienation is the “withdrawing or separation of a person or a person’s affections from an object or position of former attachment” (“Alienation”). The motif of alienation is shown throughout the novel in the characterization of the main characters, the relationships of the characters, and the consequences of the choices made by the characters.

The client is identified as Kevin, a 14-year-old male from Honduras. Kevin left his family

Alienation can be more hurtful than any physical harm. It renders feelings of isolation and loneliness. Estrangement by your community confuses your ego and sense of self and leaves you wondering, “where do I belong?” Alienation and its effects were appropriately personified in both the late Leanita McClain and fictional character Arnold Spirit Jr. from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian.

As such, the individual learns that his work benefits society, which will in turn benefit him. Furthermore, as society becomes more specialized, more opportunities are open to the individual because he no longer has to rely purely on the product of his labor for sustenance. Durkheim describes this development as the entire sphere of consciousness expanding. As such, the domains for individualism within society have correspondingly expanded as well, “individualism has expanded in absolute value by penetrating into regions which were originally closed to it” (85). Durkheim makes this claim in spite of what Marx describes as the individual being enslaved to a field. He claims that although there are many more conscriptions on the individual, the overall sphere in which the individual can act is so much larger that overall there is actually an increased level of freedom.

B.) Social network/ Pg. 156: The social ties radiating outward from the self that link people together

“The Office” is a popular comedy show that originated in the UK and ventured into the U.S. It is popular among mostly millennials but can be cross-generational because of the different cohort groups that are represented in the show. The run down is that it’s a mockumentary about a mediocre paper company called Dunder Mifflin and the workers that cohabitate within. With Michael Scott being a kind, lenient yet socially unaware and naive branch manager also having an extremely wide variety of personalities coexisting in this primary social agent the episodes never fail to entertain. Exemplifying very simple humor, this show can be argued as mind numbing comedy, however, I believe there are so many sociological layers that are only evident

“The Validity of Restraints on Alienation in an Oil and Gas lease” explains whether the new clause in oil and gas lease should me made enforceable or not. Under the existing law when landowners are approached by the companies offering for oil and gas lease, landowners make an assumptions that they have prevent their unwanted transfers of lease interest, however it is still unclear under existing laws. “The reasons that privately-imposed restraints on alienation are sometimes invalidated simply do not apply to a restraint within an oil and gas lease. Rather, the relationship created by an oil and gas lease justifies enforcement of restraint clauses that have been bargained for by the

In this article the concept of occupational justice will be applied to the contemporary issue of off-shore detention centres for asylum seekers. Occupational Justice is a term that is used and emphasized by the notion of people participating in occupations that are found to be meaningful for them. And by the optimistic vision of possible societies in which all populations have equitable opportunity, resources, privilege, and occupational rights for meaningful, occupational engagement along with the right to good health and wellbeing (Townsend & Whiteford 2011, p. 71). A subsection of occupational justice is occupational alienation, this occurs when a subset of people no longer have the ability/ resources to perform occupations that are meaningful to them. These people are still required to perform the occupations but in a way that brings them no meaning. For example a student may enjoy learning, but when in a stressful grade-centric environment where they must study or they will

In any given social group that an individual may belong to, there will be a status that they need to fulfill. Once given this status and the individual occupies it, they have a role, an expected behavior acquired through a status, to play. Assigned at birth, accomplished throughout one’s life, or one that dominates all the others in certain situations are different kinds of statuses. Thus, one individual can occupy a multitude of statuses.

Durkheim was one of the most influential sociologists in relation to the functionalist theories which stated society consisted of a structural consensus with a collective conscience of shared norms and values. He argued in order to establish the meaning of society one must understand the structures and social facts. He highlights changes in society from traditional societies which were linked with mechanical solidarity consisting of small scale ties with little division of labour. This in turn created a strong collective conscience of unity in comparison to modern society where differences amongst groups are promoted in turn weakening social solidarity. This is due to rapid changes within society in which Durkheim emphasises is due to a complex division of labour. Durkheim then argues that due to the combination of enlightenment notions and a capitalist society a collective conscience of individualism and greed is created. (Jones, Bradbury and Boutillier, 2011, pp.62-64)

People in present society are divided up into different positions in the work force. Durkheim sees society from a structural functionalist perspective and refers to society as a system of different organs, each with a special role that differentiates parts from one another (pg 122). According to Durkheim, the differences we hold in society create interdependence among one another due

Our society needs to be aware of social disconnection and alienation due to the increase of technological advances. How do technological advances lead to disconnection and alienation? People can feel disconnected from reality, from themselves, or from other people. Consequently, they physically alienate themselves willingly by withdrawing from a source that is a cause of pain or discomfort; such as bullying, disagreements, past relations, family or work issues.

Through utilitarian means and fashion, the world culture as shaped by capitalism is to make labour intrude with nature. For Marx (1893), the labour provided by the proletariat have become a tool to advance the needs and purposes of the bourgeoisie but it has forsaken the proletariats’ value as human beings and as entities capable of doing creative work. Whether for the sake of convenience or being pragmatic about life, in allowing labour to encroach nature and dictate the life of human beings, this world labour culture has actually corrupted people. Labour is a process done by human beings who engage in habituated and instinctual work. Because of this nature, men and women’s rationality and will are deferred in the course of labour and they are degraded lower species like animals. Marx was very careful to delineate labour that is different from human work. The former is like the instinctual production and reproduction of goods out of a mechanism-like activity, while the latter is an engagement of man with his own rationality, critical thinking skills and creative powers in order to exercise men’s power for conceptual thought. Therefore, products or creating something in the realm of human creative work is actually a willed rational activity. Following the critique of Marx against capitalism, we may understand that for Marx, labour hinders a cognate of men to achieve a human culture or the outcome of the capacity of human work

As Durkheim said that “My work had its origins in the question of the relations of the individual to social solidarity. Why does the individual, while becoming more autonomous, depend more upon society? How can he [sic] be at one more individual?”(Durkheim 1976: 37-8) Durkheim is basically saying that as we move from a mechanical form of solidarity which has a simple occupational structure as there where fewer occupations compared to organic solidarity where with the development of society brought about more occupation’s to choose from means that there is now a more