Organizations and Alienation
The Mediation Hypothesis Revisited
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2276233 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip H Pollock (Hamilton College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 143-155 |
| Publication date | 1982-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1982.tb01004.x |
| OpenAlex | W2038260244 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 40 |
It is a widely accepted premise of mass society theory that voluntary associations play an important integrating role in modern society by mediating between the individual and the remote influences on life, work, and politics. There are two major variants of the mediation hypothesis: (1) purely social interaction within organizations lessens alienation in immediate relationships; (2) interaction accompanied by political exposures reduces alienation in the political domain. Controlling for social class, activity in instrumental, political groups is associated with significantly lower levels of political alienation. Activity in nonpolitical, social organizations is found to have more general attitudinal consequences—both for levels of social alienation and for estrangement from political processes. These patterns suggest that, despite the consistent effects of SES on nonalienative beliefs, voluntary associations provide independent settings of social and political integration
Alienation · Economics · Epistemology · Mediation · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Premise · Social science · Sociology · Voluntary association · Cultural Differences and Values · Law · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Psychology · Social Capital and Networks · Social Psychology
Political organizations
The human meaning of social change.
Political Participation
Dimensions of internal versus external control.
Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.
Union democracy
Politics of Mass Society
The Logic of Collective Action
A constructivist analysis of the Rotter I‐E scale 1
Benefits and Membership
Dimensions of Internal‐External Locus of Control and the Women's Liberation Movement
Internal‐External Control in the Motivational Dynamics of Negro Youth
Social Participation and Voting Turnout
Organizational Membership and Democratic Consensus
Alienation, Membership, and Political Knowledge
Participant Citizenship in a Marginal Group
On Joining Interest Groups
Organizations and Powerlessness
Theory and Method in the Social Sciences
Benefits and Membership
Political Alienation in America, 1952-1968
Commitment and Detachment in Voluntary Associations
On The Meaning of Alienation
Social Involvement and Political Activity
A Typology of Voluntary Associations
Trends in Voluntary Association Memberships of American Adults
The concepts of alienation and involvement revisited
Theory and Method in the Social Sciences
Alienation and Political Behavior
Social Structure and Political Participation
Dimensions of Political Alienation
Alienation Studies
Correlates of Social Participation
Voluntary Association Membership and Political Participation
Social Class Correlates of Stability and Change in Levels of Alienation
Alienation and Action
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 2009 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |