Explain the Concept of Alienation, and Describe How Workers Are

question 58

Essay

Explain the concept of alienation, and describe how workers are alienated in a capitalist mode of production, according to Marx.

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Definitions:

Conservation

In cognitive development, the understanding that certain properties of objects remain the same, despite changes in the object's appearance.

Egocentrism

A cognitive characteristic in which an individual is unable to differentiate between their own perspective and that of another person.

Affordances

The possibilities for action offered by objects and environments to an organism.

Information-Processing Theory

A framework in cognitive psychology that compares human thought processes to a computer's operation, focusing on how information is received, processed, stored, and retrieved.