atomization

Example Sentences

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Wallace has an eye for Americana: the kitsch, the disorder, the atomization.

From Seattle Times

How can we alleviate America's crisis of loneliness and social atomization?

From Salon

Throw in some overall social and cultural atomization, and it’s coming to feel like we’ve become rhetorically unstuck in time.

From Los Angeles Times

A result of this atomization of social media sources is to reinforce the partisan information bubbles within which millions of Americans live.

From New York Times

Trumpism feeds on their loneliness, social atomization and despair caused by a toxic combination of future shock, death anxiety, radicalized religion, anti-intellectualism, bigotry and hatred.

From Salon