ISBN:
9781529219302
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9781529219319
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 157 Seiten)
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.544
Keywords:
Alienation (Social psychology)
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Sociology
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Alienation (Social psychology)
;
Well-being
;
Aliénation (Psychologie sociale)
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Bien-être
;
comfort (sensation)
Abstract:
This book offers insights into the argument that capitalist society damages human health and well-being. Drawing on and bringing Marx's theory of alienation forward to the present day, it uniquely links it to well-being
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Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 What Is Alienation? -- Introduction -- Alienation theory and medical sociology -- The Golden Age of Alienation Studies -- What is alienation? -- Product alienation -- Labour process alienation -- Other-human alienation -- Human-nature alienation -- Taking things forward -- Work takes many forms -- Conclusion -- Copyright notice -- 2 Responding to Criticisms of Alienation Theory -- Introduction -- Tackling the issues -- Human nature -- Humans as embodied beings -- Needs -- Human labour -- Cooperative and social -- Human consciousness -- Relationship with nature -- Towards other species alienation and why other creatures, too, must become free -- Alienation, continuity and the epistemological break -- Conclusion -- 3 Alienation and Wellbeing -- Introduction -- What is wellbeing? -- Towards an internally related dialectic of how alienation gets under the skin -- Wellbeing and the four expressions of alienation -- Process and product alienation -- Fellow human-being alienation -- Human-nature alienation -- Conclusion -- 4 Case Study: Social Workers, the Compassionate Self and Disappointed Jugglers -- Introduction -- The case study -- A brief history of British social work from parochial professionalism to audit culture -- Results and analysis -- The compassionate self and the choice of social work as a profession -- The disappointed juggler and the realities of social work -- Conclusion -- Copyright notice -- 5 Is Alienation Theory Still Relevant? -- Alienation today -- The transitive and intransitive dimensions of knowledge -- Neoliberalism as a machine of alienation? -- Conclusion -- 6 Beyond Alienation? -- Time for a new society? -- Everyday solidarities -- 'Make way for the worker' -- Juking the stats, juking the algorithm and juking alienation -- Join a trade union -- Final thoughts -- References -- Index
DOI:
10.46692/9781529219319
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