Yaksh ChaudharyAIR 6 · CSE 2021 · 442 wordsTheir whole copy
Opening · a definition
According to marx, alienation is the process where workers feel disenchanted, disillusioned and feeling of powerlessness.
while anomie, according to Durkheim is a situation of normlessness in the society.
Body · points and prose
Difference between anomie and Alienation
| Anomie | Alienation |
|---|---|
| 1) It happens when there is rapid social change. Ex - French Revolution | 1) It occurs due to emergence of private property. |
| 2) It's transitory in nature and disappear when norms and values are reestablished. | 2) The level of alienation increases with successive Mode of production except in Communism |
| 3) People no longer feel integrated to the society. | 3) Feeling of hostility between the workers and the Capitalists. |
| 4) General throughout society i.e. felt by all. | 4) only workers feel in capitalist society |
| 5) People came together to reenact the Consensual norms and social order | 5) workers feel helpless and not aware about their exploitation i.e. class in itself. |
| 6) solution lies in existing system by reforming it | 6) Capitalist system has to be overthrown and Communism can only reduce and end alienation. |
| 7) Can lead to anomic division of labor | 7) exploitative DOL between workers and capitalists |
Similarities between both
| Anomie | Alienation |
|---|---|
| 1) creation of social disharmony by lack of common norms and values | 1) social disharmony and feeling of hostility among the different classes. |
| 2) Pathological DOL due to anomie ie. Anomic Division of labor where workers don't feel comfort and integrated to the production process | 2) Forced division of labor which is caused by coercion by capitalists. workers feels disenchanted from self, society, product and production process |
| 3) society loose control over its members. occupational Associations can play role in reducing anomic DOL in society | 3) society no longer decides DOL but dominant class decide |
The role of community reduces. There is no single morality in the society. The social solidarity and Collective Conscience reduces
The community no longer controls the material world as was in the primitive society. But the forces of market and Commodities control the lives of people. marx calls it "fetishism of Commodities"
Close · a summary
Hence anomie is the transitory situation and stage during the rapid social change. while marx's alienation result out of perverting of the organic linkage between the work and workers. But both are similar in the sense that both create social disharmony but the ways of resolving them are different in the theories of marx and Durkheim