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Introduction : alienation, ethnicity, and postmodernism / Felix Geyer -- Alienation redux : from here to postmodernity / Richard Schacht -- The strange career of alienation : how a concept is transformed without permission of its founders / Irving Louis Horowitz -- The fetishization of alienation : unpacking a problem of science, knowledge, and reified practices in the workplace / David Schweitzer -- "But what can 'one' do?" : agency and alienation in economic crises / Peter Archibald -- Building democracy in the new South Africa : civil society, citizenship, and political ideology / Mark Orkin -- Immigration, alienation, and political change : a positive case from Los Angeles / John Horton -- Ethnic revival and conflicts : the challenge of 1990s / Yehuda Bien -- Tracing the growth of alienation : enculturation, socialization, and schooling in a democracy / Devorah Kalekin-Fishman -- Alienation and racial discrimination in the European Union / Marie Macey -- Postmodern culture and the revisioning of alienation / Kenneth J. Gergen -- The self strikes back : identity politics in the postmodern age / Lauren Langman and Valerie Scatamburlo -- Alienation, everyday life, and postmodernism as critical theory / Mark Gottdiener -- Post-ism or positivism? A comparison between theories of reification and theories of post-modernity / Frédéric Vandenberghe -- Alienation, new age sociology, and the Jewish way / Philip Wexler -- Cross the border, confront boundaries : problems of habituality, marginality, and liminality / Pirkkoliisa Ahponen -- Individual, time, and death in contemporary society / Maria Helena Oliva Augusto. |
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