atomization

One reason for the atomization is pervasive mistrust and corruption, plus a shaky rule of law.

China Makes, The World Takes 2007

One reason for the atomization is pervasive mistrust and corruption, plus a shaky rule of law.

China Makes, The World Takes 2007

Such granular metrics are the publishing equivalent of what I've been calling the atomization of computing and content.

BNET Articles Erik Sherman 2010

Gettman, who teaches at Shenandoah University and lives in Lovettsville, Va., calls it the "atomization" of marijuana cultivation that fuels a singularly American fixation for growing crops to maximize yield.

Boutique buds: What underground mom-and-pop growers did while we debated legalization Adrian Higgins 2010

Moreover, such a system would prevent the "atomization" of society so much desired by the revolutionaries who wished to remake in a new form that which had been pulverized by liberalism.10

Distributism: Economics as if People Mattered 2007

He was -- he was very concerned that in a society where individualism was so prized, eventually that could lead to a kind of atomization and fragmentation of society and culture.

American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change & the 20th Century 1999

It's a kind of atomization, a trend towards getting things into smaller units so that we can handle them, believe in them.

Getting Away with It for Forty-Four Years 1980

Hence GET THE "atomization" i.e. the framing of the strategic challenge is GET THE "atomization" i.e. the framing of the strategic challenge is ORGANIZATIO crucial.

Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

McGrath said that more than the proliferation of screens and "atomization" of content, for the kids and teens who make up a big chunk of the demographic for MTV and its properties, "We have the advantage of a brand, and we have relevance which is always been the name of our game."

unknown title Karl Greenberg <kgberg@yahoo.com> 2009

*** And, when one reads Berlin's qualified praise of Herzen, it's easy to see how he became central to Stoppard's three plays: "Herzen does at least face genuine political problems, such as the incompatibility of unlimited personal liberty with either social equality, or the minimum of social organization and authority; the need to sail precariously between the Scylla of individualist 'atomization' and the Charybdis of collectivist oppression; the sad disparity and conflict between many, equally noble human ideals; the nonexistence of 'objective,' eternal, universal moral and political standards, to justify either coercion or resistance to it; the mirage of distant ends, and the impossibility of doing wholly without them."

Stinky Inky, Part VI: Carlin Romano's April Fools' Joke on His Philadelphia Inquirer Readers 2007