Aging, an inescapable part of the human experience, is often accompanied by significant social, psychological, and physical changes. The concept of alienation, initially grounded in Marxist theory, ...

(RNS) — If the political alienation theory fully explained what’s going on in American religion, millennials would be leaving conservative religions in favor of ones that are liberal and ...

The human race lives in a terrible contradiction. Quite obviously, there is enough wealth to create a decent life for every person on the planet. Yet, billions suffer deprivation and are denied basic ...

Over the past year, Hannah Dreyfus has published a stream of “parent’s worst nightmare” journalism on ProPublica. A recent story featured a Colorado mom, Christine, who lost custody of her young son ...

A university academic is taking child protection authorities to task for using the controversial concept of parental alienation to place children in care. Tampere University Social Work Lecturer Anna ...

A fresh chapter in the now decades-long public battle between Woody Allen and Mia Farrow opened in the spring of 1993 when they headed to a New York court for a bitter custody case. Allen had filed a ...

The Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Spring, 1982), pp. 143-155 (13 pages) It is a widely accepted premise of mass society theory that voluntary associations play an important integrating role ...