Alienation (Social psychology)

Loneliness – the feeling that manifests when one perceives one’s social needs are
not being met by the quantity or especially the quality of one’s social relationships – is a
common but typically short-lived and fairly harmless experience. However, recent
research continues to uncover a variety of alarming health effects associated with longterm
loneliness. The present study examines the psychological mechanisms underlying
how persons scoring high in trait loneliness perceive their social environments.
Evaluations of transient facial expression morphs are analyzed in R using dynamical
systems methods. We hypothesize that, consistent with Cacioppo and Hawkley’s sociocognitive
model, subjects scoring high in loneliness will exhibit hypervigilance in their
evaluations of cold and neutral emotions and hypovigilance in their evaluations of warm
emotions. Results partially support the socio-cognitive model but point to a relationship
between loneliness and a global dampening in evaluations of emotions.
Keywords: loneliness, perceived social isolation, social dynamics, emotion recognition.

Many inner-city neighborhoods face a vast array of social and economic problems. These problems are partly due to crime and the lack of employment, housing & communication with local government. Likewise, participation in the political system is low within these neighborhoods as well. As a result, feelings of political alienation & social isolation may be found. This body of work tests for the presence of political alienation & social isolation within community-based organizations (CBOs) of West Palm Beach, FL. By looking at the presence and formation of CBOs, this work will measure if CBOs can remedy feelings of alienation & isolation, increase political participation & impact government policy-making.

With the discovery of Marx's Theory of Alienation (1932), it
has become necessary to revise much of what passes for Marxism.
Questions over the unity of the theory and practice of socialist
parties must be raised. No longer able to claim that 'alienation'
is peculiar to capitalism, socialist parties have had to re-establish
both their objectives and methods of organization. Marx's critique
of capitalism on the basis of alienated relations is also valid when
applied to the state controlled economies of socialist systems.
Thus by interpreting Marx's mature works (namely Capital) in the
light of his philosophical synthesis of subject-object internal
relations, this paper presents some of the theoretical and political
implications of Marx's theory for socialist movements.