"Rewritten versions of papers selected from four seminars of the Research Committee for the Study of Alienation of the International Sociological Association"--P. 5.

Includes bibliographical references.

Reflections on culture / Hedvig Ekerwald -- Alienation in Finnish culture / Pirkkoliisa Ahponen -- Alienation and material culture : conceptions of Israeli Palestinians / Devorah Kalekin-Fishman -- "Re-selfing" after post-modern culture : sacred social psychology / Philip Wexler -- Family patterns in contemporary Europe : results from the European Values Study 1990 / Loek Halman -- The role of subcultures in the spread of the phenomenon of cohabitation in the Siberian countryside / Anna Mikheyeva -- Women in S㯠Paulo in the family and in the work market : behavior and representations / Maria Christina Siqueira de Souza Campos -- "Crossing the black water" : alienation and identity among South Asian immigrant women in Canada / Helen Ralston -- Alienation and marital violence among South Asian immigrant women in the United States / Margaret Abraham -- Knowledge, information, and power : information technology in academic life / Matthew David -- Paradoxes of adjusting to the Internet : experiencing alienation? / Devorah Kalekin-Fishman -- From God to friendship : the changing moral orders of educational stories in Finnish ABC books / Leena Koski -- Prison life and alienation / Veli-Matti Ulvinen -- An inquiry into the origins of totalitarianism and the feeling of alienation / Vessela Misheva -- Increasing threats of alienation in a post-socialist country : the case of Estonia / Dagmar Kutsar -- Crossing borders : learning

from each other / Sheila Allen -- Bakhtin the future : techno-capital and cyber-feudal carnivals / Lauren Langman.