This is a true story. A parent recently made a call to the local Family Maintenance Enforcement Program, which had indicated by letter that should he have any concerns about ongoing child support ...

Religiosity constitutes a neglected variable in the research of alienation. The present study tests a theory of the effect of religiosity on the alienation dimension of normlessness. Data from the ...

This is a true story. A parent recently made a call to the local Family Maintenance Enforcement Program, which had indicated by letter that should he have any concerns about ongoing child support ...

The idea of ‘alienation’ by Karl Marx is one of the most widely discussed concepts in social, political and economic theory. It is an idea that a young Marx developed out of his study of Friedrich ...

I always thought there was something half-baked in Bertolt Brecht’s formulation of the “alienation effect.” First, there is a discrepancy between what he aims for and the method he proposes to get ...

Many people speak of alienating the audience (making them separate from the action) but verfremdungseffekt actually translates more closely to ‘distancing.’ However, it’s still often called the ...