Occupational Structure and Alienation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2208658 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Melvin L Kohn (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 111-130 |
| Publication date | 1976-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/226272 |
| PMID | 990046 |
| OpenAlex | W2083892206 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 97 |
| References cited | 30 |
This paper appraises two related hypotheses suggested by Marx's analysis of the occupational sources of alienation-one emphasizing control over the product of one's labor, the other emphasizing control over the work process. Using data from a sample survey of U.S. males employed in civilian occupations, it concludes that, in this large-scale, capitalist system, control over the product of one's labor (ownership and hierarchical position) has only indirect effect on alienation, whereas control over work process (closeness of supervision, routinization, and substantive complexity) has an appreciable direct effect on powerlessness, self-strangement, and normlessness
Alienation · Anomie · Closeness · Control (management) · Economics · Geography · Management · Political science · Product (mathematics) · Sample (material) · Scale (ratio) · Sociology · Work (physics) · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges
Examining Red Tape in Public and Private Organizations
The Social Psychology of Self-Efficacy
Households, Employment, and the Sense of Control
Reducing Classroom Alienation
Gender and Adolescent Drinking Problems
Male and Female
Consequences of Retirement Activities for Distress and the Sense of Personal Control
Education and the Subjective Quality of Life
Health Behavior and Personal Autonomy
Measuring Social Participation
The Dimension(s) of Democracy
Control and Dignity in Professional, Manual and Service-Sector Employment
Mental Health, Social Mirror
Alienation
The experience of powerlessness in organizations
The Sense of Personal Control
The Life-Course and Human Development
Marxist Categories and Theories of Class
Locus of Control and Occupational Structure
Türkiye’de İşe Yabancılaşma (Work alienation) Literatürüne İlişkin Betimsel Bir İnceleme
Assessing the validity and reliability of enabling structure scale in mainland China
Ethnicity disparities in job control in the United Kingdom
Feeling like the enemy
In Control or Fatalistically Ruled? The Sense of Mastery among Working Canadians
Understanding physical educators’ perceptions of mattering
The Structural Causes of Teacher Burnout in Hong Kong
Controlling Anger and Happiness at Work
Alienation
Drinking to cope and self‐medication
Rethinking craft administration
Employee Inefficacy in Selected Client Serving Bureaucracies
General and specific measures of alienation
Retirement and Mental Health
How Knowledge is Power
Forgetting and remembering alienation theory
Using Alienation to Understand the Link Between Work and Capabilities
The job satisfaction of physician assistants
Positional Sources of Inequality in Job Satisfaction
Gender, the Labor Process and Dignity at Work
Men, blue collar work and drinking
Occupations, Jobs, and the Sense of Control
The Effect of Religiosity on Alienation
The status of race in public sector work
Professing Professionalism
Causas sociales de la depresión. Una revisión crítica del modelo atributivo de la depresión
Multiple Dimensions of Meaning in the Domains of Work, Family, and Leisure
Counting on Coworkers
City Air Makes Free”
In Praise of Bureaucracy? A Dissent From Australia
(Still) Modern Times
What is Attractive about Magnet Schools
Organic Structure, Satisfaction, and Personality
Technological Development and the Meaning of Work
Normlessness, Powerlessness, and Trouble With the Law
Socioeconomic Status and Perceptions of Personal Arrest Probabilities
Working‐class authoritarianism
Social stratification in meaningful work
Swedish physicians' perspectives on work and the medical care system-III
Alienation, Exploitation, and Social Media
Swedish physicians' perspectives on work and the medical care system-v. comparisons across specialties
Can patient self-management explain the health gradient? Goldman and Smith's "Can patient self-management help explain the SES health gradient?" (2002) revisited
Gender differences in happiness in Chinese society
Heavy and problem drinking in an American blue-collar population
Swedish physicians' perspectives on work and the medical care system-II
White-Collar Opt-Out
Class, Control, and Relational Indignity
Is Work Special? Justice and the Distribution of Employment
Crisis and retirement
Teacher alienation in Hong Kong
Victimization, Fear of Crime, and Perceived Risk
Marx, Globalization and Alienation
Gender Differences in Job Resources and Strains in Authority Positions
Women's Work, Men's Work, and the Sense of Control
Contested Control
Technology and Participation in Japanese Factories
Ownership and Alienation in Kibbutz Factories
Alienation, Occupational Self-Direction, and Worker Consciousness
Work Alienation in the Textile Industry
Job Complexity as Perceived by Workers and Experts
Sex, Family Wage-Earning Status, and Satisfaction with Work
The Perception of Class
Prestige, Work Satisfaction, and Alienation
The Pressure-Status Nexus and Blurred Work-Family Boundaries
Unrewarding Work, Coworker Support, and Job Satisfaction
Social and Value Integration of Youth in the Military
Social Class Origin and Job Quality among Higher Managerial and Professional Occupations in the United Kingdom
Maternal Occupation-Specific Skills and Children's Cognitive Development
Farm Work Satisfaction and Acceptance of Sustainability Goals by Australian Organic and Conventional Farmers1
Gender, Dimensions of Work, and Supportive Coworker Relations
Socioeconomic Status, Job Conditions, and Well-Being
Some Determinants of Work Alienation
Alienation as a Social Process
Father's Occupation and Son's Personality
Caring for persons with schizophrenia at home
Genetics and the Social Science Explanation of Individual Outcomes
Job satisfaction, self-esteem, and general alienation among three groups of blue-collar service workers
Education, control at work, and job satisfaction
Measures of social psychological attitudes
The Affluent worker in the class structure
Alienation and Freedom
Class and conformity
Anomie, Authoritarianism, Prejudice, and Socioeconomic Status
Two Categories of Political Alienation
Bureaucracy and Alienation
Commitment in an Israeli Kibbutz
Sociological Measurement
The urban alienations
The Dehumanization of Anomie and Alienation
Organizations and Powerlessness
Alienation from Work
Measuring Alienation Within a Social System
Value Orientation, Role Conflict, and Alienation From Work
A Measure of Alienation
Alienation, Race, and Education
Organizational Alienation
The Signals of '68
Bureaucratic Man
A Misapplication of Factor Analysis
Social Integration and Certain Corollaries
A Factor Analytic Exploration of the Alienation, Anomia and Authoritarianism Domain
Occupational Experience and Psychological Functioning
Dimensions of Alienation Among Manual and Non-Manual Workers
Professionals in Bureaucracy
A Specification of Relationships Between Job Complexity and Powerlessness
Alienation
Dimensions of Political Alienation
Anomie
| Unique citing works | 97 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,02 |
| Citation span | 1978 - 2025 (48) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 86 |