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  2. Social alienation - Wikipedia

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    Social alienation is a person's feeling of disconnection from a group – whether friends, family, or wider society – with which the individual has an affiliation. Such alienation has been described as "a condition in social relationships reflected by (1) a low degree of integration or common values and (2) a high degree of distance or isolation (3a) between individuals, or (3b) between an ...

  3. Social isolation - Wikipedia

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    Social isolation is a state of complete or near-complete lack of contact between an individual and society.It differs from loneliness, which reflects temporary and involuntary lack of contact with other humans in the world. [1]

  4. Isolationism - Wikipedia

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    Isolationism has been defined as: A policy or doctrine of trying to isolate one's country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances, foreign economic commitments, international agreements, and generally attempting to make one's economy entirely self-reliant; seeking to devote the entire efforts of one's country to its own advancement, both diplomatically and ...

  5. Sociogram - Wikipedia

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    Sociograms were developed by Jacob L. Moreno to analyze choices or preferences within a group. [2] [3] They can diagram the structure and patterns of group interactions.A sociogram can be drawn on the basis of many different criteria: Social relations, channels of influence, lines of communication etc.

  6. Uncontacted peoples - Wikipedia

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    The Flecheiros (the "arrow people") are another people living in the Vale do Javari. [33] Other tribes may include the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau, and the Himarimã. There may be uncontacted peoples in Uru-Eu-Uaw-Uaw Indigenous Territory and Kampa Indigenous Territory and Envira River Isolated Peoples.

  7. Isolation to facilitate abuse - Wikipedia

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    This applies in many contexts such as workplace bullying, [1] [2] elder abuse, [3] [4] domestic abuse, [5] [6] child abuse, [7] [8] and cults. [9] [10] Isolation reduces the opportunity of the abused to be rescued or escape from the abuse. It also helps disorient the abused and makes the abused more dependent on the abuser. The degree of power ...

  8. Isolation (health care) - Wikipedia

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    Reverse isolation is a way to prevent a patient in a compromised health situation from being contaminated by other people or objects. It often involves the use of laminar air flow and mechanical barriers (to avoid physical contact with others) to isolate the patient from any harmful pathogens present in the external environment. [18]

  9. International isolation - Wikipedia

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    International isolation is a penalty applied by the international community or a sizeable or powerful group of countries, like the United Nations, towards one nation, government or group of people. The same term may also refer to the state a country finds itself in after being shunned by the international community of nations or the greater ...