Alienation Reconsidered: The Strength Of Weak Ties Analysis

There are two types of people, the oppressors and the oppressed. Since the beginning of time oppressors have knocked down others who they believed were lesser than themselves creating inequality and alienation amongst humans. How will the oppressed overcome oppression and change their situation? The key to successfully overcoming oppression is a pedagogy with the oppressed.

In the novel “Brave New World”, there are many indications of the motif alienation that is seen in the novel as discrimination. Alienation is indicated directly towards John the savage, who is discriminated, but also is seen as a person of interest that isolates him and alienates him. The World State discovers how different John’s culture is and mock it, believing it to be nonsense. As John enters the society enjoying the magnificent sights and the thrill of entering into a new society, he soon realizes how corrupt the entire society is and regrets coming because how he is alienated among the people. “Brave New World” is a novel that involves a culture of discrimination, which the citizens of the World State alienate other moral standards, religious beliefs, and diverse culture.

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

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

“In all societies of any degree of complexity the individual is less directly affected by society as a whole than differentially through varieties of its subdivisions, or groups.” Truman emphasizes that groups assist in the process of specialization. As society becomes more complex, groups proliferate to meet people’s various needs. It is impossible for an individual to function in all of the component groups of even the simplest society.

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.

Durkheim believed that the division of labor would individualize the people and would create differences amongst the people in a society. Not only does he believe that the division of labor is necessary for civilization to play out like Smith said, but he also said it was a desire for people to be different from each other. Unlike Marx, he believed that this division and differentiation of labor was allowing for a different morale that catered to this system. Even though society is differentiating, it does not mean that the morality of the people is being lost. In fact, he believed that this division of labor was producing what he called an, organic solidarity or morale in which an individual becomes more differentiated from others around him, yet are still integrated in the larger society (Durkheim DL: 37). In contrast to Marx, he believed that division of labor did not create alienation but rather it allowed for people to interact more, as the solidarity changes, people find meaning in their work. Durkheim said that “teach organ, in fact, has its special characteristics, its autonomy, and yet, the greater the unity of the organism, the more marked is the individuation of its parts (Durkheim, DL, 38). The individual becomes more dependent on society. Like Smith, he believed that the division of labor allows for a

According to Lee, the key social problem is “reconciling principles of conformity and individual initiative, group living and private freedom of choice, social regulation and personal autonomy” (Lee 5). She explores how we as individuals are usually in one social structure or another; but we do not get the freedom we as individuals

In the passage “A Brave New World,” by Adam Huxley, John the Savage experiences exile when he travels to the civilized world with Bernard Marx. While John is in the civilized world, the separation from his homeland causes him to have alienating experiences. John is seen as an outcast in the civilized world due to his refusal to participate in customs and events that are normal to the citizens. His refusal of protest also makes him appear as an odd person to the citizens, due to the citizens viewing protest as normal. All this makes john feel alienated in the new world.

“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

Aldous Huxley creates a futuristic utopian society in his novel, “Brave New World”. Individuals have little to no freedoms, and are conditioned not question their superiors from birth to adulthood. Jobs are predetermined before birth as is being taught to belong to one another. John the Savage, however, provides an insight on this society told from an outsider perspective. Being born from a nonnative mother is unfortunate, as the civilization he belongs to heavily punishes those nonnatives, such as not being able to hunt as a group. John was born and grows up as a nobody with no one to talk to besides his mother, Linda. Shoved into the New World, John continues to realize he struggles to fit in the general population and experiences alienation

Concerned with how the impartial and universal morality conflicts with the non-universal personal sentiments and goals (e.g. love), Railton in “Alienation, Consequentialism and the Demands of Morality” introduces the concept of sophisticated consequentialism to refute the claim of consequentialism as the most incompatible form of moral theory. Railton contends that, sophisticated consequentialism, in fact, effectively characterizes how non-consequentialist motivation paired with objective morality diminishes alienation as well as unnecessary line of thoughts (Railton 134). He states that, although morality is an “impersonal point of view” of life that one may be guided by, it is not the absolute guideline for actions. If a moral action brings

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.

| The fundamental issue addressed by this dimension is the degree of interdependence a society maintains among its members. It has to do with whether people´s self-image is defined in terms of “I” or “We”. In Individualist societies people are supposed to look after themselves and their direct family only. In Collectivist societies people belong to ‘in

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