Notion of separating, splitting up and dividing previously homogenus groups like friends, family, the neighbourhood, local community, town, the country.
Linked to the process of fragmented identity construction
Richard Hoggart
1959
‘Extremely local life, in which everything was remarkably near’
John Urry
‘Life centered upon groups of known streets’
‘Little sepereation of production and consumption’
Global population grew during 20th century
from 2 billion [1900] to 8 billion [2022]
This creates more isolation, individualism, more fractured and alienated individuals struggling to survive and keep alive
Globalisation
Created a high polarised class division between rich and poor made through the rapid increase of new forms of technological developments
