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 ...

A university academic is taking child protection authorities to task for using the controversial concept of parental alienation to place children in care. Tampere University Social Work Lecturer Anna ...

A fresh chapter in the now decades-long public battle between Woody Allen and Mia Farrow opened in the spring of 1993 when they headed to a New York court for a bitter custody case. Allen had filed a ...

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 ...

Parental alienation is already being misused in our family courts to the extent that victims of domestic abuse are afraid to disclose abuse for fear of being accused of alienation. Despite there being ...