Sociologist Karl Marx believed that workers are exploited as capitalists maximize their profit by paying the workers less than the resale values of what they produce. Marx believed that this resulted in a feeling of powerlessness and estrangement that he called_______________.

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Marx referred to the feeling of powerlessness and estrangement that workers experience as alienation. Anomie refers to a state of normlessness or loss of social cohesion, stratification refers to the unequal distribution of resources in a society, and verstehen refers to the process of understanding social behavior from the subjective viewpoint of those engaging in it.

Sociologist Karl Marx Believed That Workers Are Exploited as Capitalists