The Relationship Between Alienation and Other Demographic Variables Among High School Students.

problem of growing concern to educators is the increasing proportion of youth who have lost faith in their society and are becoming alienated from it. While often thought of as a problem that occurs only in minority groups, feelings of alienation are present in suburbia as well as the inner city; in affuence as well as poverty; in majority groups as well as minority groups; in the conformist as well as the hippie.1 Writers such as Friedenberg,2 Jackson,3 Keniston,4 and Goodman5 believe the major cause of this growing problem is the increasing tendency of our society to treat individuals as commodities or pawns to be dealt with as the society sees fit.