Social alienation is "a condition in social relationships reflected by
a low degree of integration or common values and a high degree of
distance or isolation between individuals, or between an individual
and a group of people in a community or work environment". It is a
sociological concept developed by several classical and contemporary
theorists. The concept has many discipline-specific uses, and can
refer both to a personal psychological state (subjectively) and to a
type of social relationship (objectively).The term alienation has been
used over the ages with varied and sometimes contradictory meanings.
In ancient history it could mean a metaphysical sense of achieving a
higher state of contemplation, ecstasy or unionâ€"becoming alienated
from a limited existence in the world, in a positive sense. Examples
of this usage have been traced to neoplatonic philosophers such as
Plotinus (in the Greek alloiosis). There have also long been religious
concepts of being separated or cut off from God and the faithful,
alienated in a negative sense. The New Testament mentions the term
apallotrioomai in Greekâ€""being alienated from". Ideas of
estrangement from a Golden Age, or due to a fall of man, or
approximate equivalents in differing cultures or religions, have also
been described as concepts of alienation. A double positive and
negative sense of alienation is broadly shown in the spiritual beliefs
referred to as Gnosticism.Alienation has also had a particular
legal-political meaning since at least Ancient Roman times, where to
alienate property (alienato) is to transfer ownership of it to someone
else. The term alienation itself comes from the Latin alienus which
meant 'of another place or person', which in turn came from alius,
meaning "other" or "another". An alienus in ancient Roman times could
refer to someone else's slave. Another usage of the term in Ancient
Greco-Roman times was by physicians referring to disturbed, difficult
or abnormal states of mind, generally attributed to imbalanced
physiology. In Latin alienatio mentis (mental alienation), this usage
has been dated to Asclepiades. Once translations of such works had
resurfaced in the West in the 17th century, physicians again began
using the term, which is typically attributed to Felix Platter.In
medieval times, a relationship between alienation and social order has
been described, mediated in part by mysticism and monasticism. The
Crusades and witch-hunts have been described as forms of mass
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