
Staying connected in the age of social media
Source: Marco Calderon
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'The Affluent Society:' Postwar analysts worried about the social alienation and conformity of suburban living
Source: Marco Calderon
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Sport utility vehicles (SUVs) at a suburban dealer
Source: Marco Calderon
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Keeping in touch in a shopping mall
Source: Marco Calderon
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Consumer choice at a suburban shopping center
Source: Marco Calderon
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Texting outside an Apple Retail Store
Source: Marco Calderon
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Shopping for a new iPod touch
Source: Marco Calderon
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Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, recently described by Bill Clinton as 'deeply alienated and disconnected'
Source: Olaf Growald

An automobile factory: fears that the repetitive assembly line produced alienation in workers
Source: Brian Snelson

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who on Christmas 2009 tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner with plastic explosives in his underwear
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G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831), who first put forth the concept of alienation as a formal philosophical proposition
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Karl Marx (1818-1883), who applied the term 'alienation' to the separation of the worker from the work process in the development of capitalism
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A movie poster from the emblematic youth film of the early postwar period, James Dean's Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Source: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc./Wikipedia