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  • Essay / Alienation in sociology - 856

    51). Youth workers will begin to feel this with their other colleagues and become aware of what is happening in the workplace. Many employees who are higher up or are older will receive certain benefits than those below them. Young people will start to feel excluded from the workplace, where they will be treated with less value and exploited in the workplace. The workplace is a place of alienation where workers have no control over what they produce (Bradford, 2012, p. 5). This means that workers are paid much less than the income the owner earns. Many large companies exploit their workers and don't pay them the wages they should be earning. When it comes to the minimum wage for young workers, they earn a lower salary than other colleagues who occupy the same position. This is called conflict theory, where Marx explains that individuals reach their full potential through their work, but are alienated and cannot realize it in the work environment. Theorist Emile Durkheim coined the term anomie, which is defined as in the textbook as "a state of abnormality that results from an