social alienation
2.French social scientist and a founder of sociology who is known for his study of social values and alienation. His important works include The Rules of Sociological Method(1895).
3.Chapter Three discusses alienation as the major social root of the grotesqueness, and Winesburg, Ohio as a microcosm of the American small town life.
4.The alienation and degeneration of man discloses the darkness of the American society as a whole and its social maladies in spite of its prosperous economy and material civilization, hence explores the hollow promises and the ensuing disillusionment of the deep-rooted American Dream.
