Focus:

• Powerlessness
• Estrangement
• Problem of appearance of Stability

Humans as creative Beings: Workers

Fulfill Needs through our labor

• Animal
• Human

Fulfilled Needs

• Power
• Potential

Alienation:

• Alienated from the act of working
• Alienated from the product of our labor
• Alienated from our fellow workers
• Alienated from all of humanity (1)

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References and Credits for this Page of Notes
See also: John Macionis, Sociology, 6th ed., Prentice Hall, 1997, pages 108-109; and George Ritzer, Classical Sociological Theory, McGraw-Hill, 1992, Chapter 5.
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