Aging, an inescapable part of the human experience, is often accompanied by significant social, psychological, and physical changes. The concept of alienation, initially grounded in Marxist theory, ...

The human race lives in a terrible contradiction. Quite obviously, there is enough wealth to create a decent life for every person on the planet. Yet, billions suffer deprivation and are denied basic ...

In these last two columns I want to bring us back to more speculative, philosophical and even theological ground with a discussion of ideology and of alienation. I will cover the concepts in Marx and ...

The Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Spring, 1982), pp. 143-155 (13 pages) It is a widely accepted premise of mass society theory that voluntary associations play an important integrating role ...