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Identify the similarities and differences between Marx’s theory of ‘alienation’ and Durkheim’s theory of ‘anomie’.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Sociological Thinkers

Karl Marx's alienation (Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, 1844) and Émile Durkheim's anomie (The Division of Labour in Society, 1893; Suicide, 1897) are both diagnoses of what went wrong for the individual in industrial society. Both locate the malaise in social structure, not in personal failing. But one sees too much domination, the other too little…

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