Humans are tribal creatures. We are made to belong to things — families, churches, communities, clubs, subcultures, teams, et cetera. Individuals deprived of these natural sources of belonging and ...

“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 ...

Community can buffer loneliness and isolation by offering pathways to health through physical and social activities, ...

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 ...

Aging, an inevitable part of the human experience, is often accompanied by significant social, psychological, and physical changes. The concept of alienation, a term originally rooted in Marxist ...