One reason for the atomization is pervasive mistrust and corruption, plus a shaky rule of law.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Makes, The World Takes] Reference

Such granular metrics are the publishing equivalent of what I've been calling the atomization of computing and content.    From Wordnik.com.  [BNET Articles] Reference

It's a kind of atomization, a trend towards getting things into smaller units so that we can handle them, believe in them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting Away with It for Forty-Four Years] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change & the 20th Century] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

"atomization" of the working class and the end of the socialization of production cannot deny the global commodity chains that have been created around the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloggers.Pakistan] Reference

Maybe this atomization of the culture is a good thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference

DIY atomization seems like a great concept to me, Zach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why The Boston Globe missed the nanostory with Mitt Romney’s dog » Nieman Journalism Lab] Reference

Hannah Arendt calls it atomization, that disconnection from people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hedges Laments The 'Death Of The Liberal Class'] Reference

Here as already stated, the means for atomization are purely mechanical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steam, Its Generation and Use] Reference

Given the atomization and loneliness of contemporary life--that's our opening.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model] Reference

Given the atomization and loneliness of contemporary life -- that's our opening.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model] Reference

This is the age of the atomization of economic functions, down to the individual level.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Financial Crisis, Free Markets, and the Nirvana Fallacy:] Reference

I wonder if one way out of this dilemma is to challenge the atomization of subject matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [August 2006] Reference

As Kindle "masks" some of those signals, it promotes further separation atomization of people.    From Wordnik.com.  [An essay about how when you're reading a Kindle in public, people don't see what book you're reading.] Reference

There are lots of reasons: the economy, consumer control, audience fragmentation/atomization, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Real Time Future of Television - Shelly Palmer - MediaBizBlogger] Reference

“On evacuation and atomization uses his self-energy and on drifting atomization sea waters skywards”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference

" There ' s been an atomization of the Canadian brand over the last number of years, " says Mr. Mitchell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minority Rules] Reference

Crime, community atomization, national disunity, racial animosity and social disfunction would still remain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Borjas: What's His Problem?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

I'm just saying that what you're pointing to seems to me to be what we've all been describing as atomization.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Media Industry Schism - Publishing 2.0] Reference

But this isn’t a schism - it seems to me it’s just the atomization of creation and distribution.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Media Industry Schism - Publishing 2.0] Reference

Pruned: “On evacuation and atomization uses his self-energy and on drifting atomization sea waters skywards”.    From Wordnik.com.  [“On evacuation and atomization uses his self-energy and on drifting atomization sea waters skywards”] Reference

Belloc and Chesterton challenge the atomization of study into disciplines which are then divided into substrata.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chesterton, Belloc and the Academy] Reference

So I see the real story being the atomization of content and aggregation, with each clustering around definable brands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Media Industry Schism - Publishing 2.0] Reference

The disappearance of classical machine politics partially reflects the atomization and alienation of the country as a whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social Networks: 1 Political Machine: 0 [Update]] Reference

Thus, atomization at such a low level is not what we are really concerned with, instead it is with atomization into Packages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of Modules, Atoms and Packages] Reference

This atomization — an outrageously pale, academic word for the horror it implies — results finally in a total loss of power.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Special Supplement: Reflections on Violence] Reference

But in Putnam's view -- and according to his research -- our growing atomization in fact poses a grave threat to the nation's welfare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-17] Reference

But neither the atomization of exurbia nor its conservative drift is natural, inevitable, nor permanent by any stretch of the imagination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-11-01] Reference

At the same time there has been pressure from below-an atomization into tribes, market regions and market segments (which are postmodern cultural tribes).    From Wordnik.com.  [Entering The Capital Of Hell] Reference

So the result is the atomization of any community identity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogpulse Top Links] Reference

Might there be a design ideas competition organized around this low energy, ultra rapid atomization?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pruned] Reference

The trend towards complete social atomization - well advanced even now - would be completed in earnest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy Bulletin -] Reference