University Professor’s Representations of cultural alienation among university student

Abstract

The study aimed to learn about the university professor’s representations of the causes of cultural alienation among the university student, and to answer the questions of the study and achieve its objectives.

The results of the study showed that the absence of effectiveness of the role of civil society institutions and the weakness of social ties as a result of the inability of socialization institutions (family, school, media) to play their role in developing the spirit of initiative for social work among the new generations is the cause of the phenomenon of self-centeredness among the university student, as it showed the implications of The study sample is that civil society institutions are ineffective in social life, as they are either dependent on the premises of the state and its hegemony, or marginalized and besieged by the political authority, and institutions of social upbringing are either alienated from the culture of Western modernity or marginalized in light of the conflict between the original culture and the concepts it approves of the internal culture and what it produces From a utilitarian point of view, The transitional stage and the contradiction of values in the institutions of socialization caused the non-normativeness of the university student.