At a loss to explain the spate of fatal school shootings in recent years, some educators and social scientists have turned to that eternal plague of childhood, bullying. The chances of eradicating ...

“Loneliness has followed me my whole life,” says Robert De Niro’s character, Travis Bickle, in Taxi Driver. “Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There’s no escape. I’m God’s ...

We often talk about political alienation as something individuals experience—when citizens feel disillusioned, powerless, or disconnected from their governments. But what happens when entire countries ...

Marx’s theory of alienation delineates how workers become estranged from the products of their labour, the labour process, their own human potential and from one another under capitalist modes of ...

Alienation in educational contexts refers to students’ growing estrangement from the core elements of schooling, encompassing detachment from learning activities, diminished rapport with teachers, and ...