Alienation

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Social Alienation
Specifically social theory, alienation is an individual person's estrangement from what is concervative or others. Modernism seems to imply "that individuals have shalolower relations with other people than they would in a traditional community." One can infer that in social difference there are more frequent misunderstandings from these clashing differences.

Examples

Karl Marx

An economist who writes manuscripts about how commodidization and ownership promotes alienation.

Simmel

An economist who wrote"Philosophy of Money" explaining how individual activities become increasingly dependent on money for interactions.

Tönnies

A political economist who wrote "Community and Society" on how capitalism promotes individuals to disconnecting, fragmenting, where goals exist beyong primary family.

Hegel

A social philosopher who wrote about how alienation leads to social inactivity, individuals to the societally, explains that individual decisions lead to collective decisions, making it less likely for each individuals to take into account.

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