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I don't have sufficient context provided to write an accurate overview of social alienation. The context you've given ("condition in social relationships") is too minimal to establish what social alienation specifically is, why it occurs, or why it matters. I would need more detailed source material to create a factually grounded explanation without inventing information.
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Research
2,696 papers- Development and validation of a social alienation predictive model for older maintenance hemodialysis patients based on latent profile analysis-a cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2024Wang G, Dong J, Zhu N et al.DOI: 10.1186/s12877-024-05116-9
- The Experience of Social Alienation in Elderly Lung Cancer Patients: A Qualitative Study.Asian nursing research · 2024Song C, Yao LDOI: 10.1016/j.anr.2024.07.007
- Trajectories and influencing factors of social alienation in first-onset stroke patients: a prospective cohort study.BMC public health · 2025Lin Y, Chen Y, Wu H et al.DOI: 10.1186/s12889-025-26051-3
- Disconnected Out of Passion: Relationship Between Social Alienation and Obsessive Passion.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2023Lobato RM, García-Coll J, Moyano MDOI: 10.1177/08862605221094631
- Prevalence of social alienation in community-dwelling older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC geriatrics · 2026Lin Y, Wu H, Chen Y et al.DOI: 10.1186/s12877-025-06922-5
- The mediation effect of social support between stigma and social alienation in patients with stroke.Frontiers in public health · 2023Wu Y, Yan Z, Fornah L et al.DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1290177
- Social alienation and related factors in patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder: a cross-sectional study.Multiple sclerosis and related disorders · 2025Yang Q, Wang LX, Lei ZY et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.msard.2025.106853
- Influence of symptom burden on social alienation in lung cancer patients receiving chemotherapy: the chain mediating effect of perceived social support and positive psychological capital.BMC psychology · 2025Wei J, Bai Z, Bu M et al.DOI: 10.1186/s40359-025-02403-x
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Encyclopedic overview
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 individual and a group of people in a community or work environment [enumeration added]". It is a sociological concept developed by several classical and contemporary theorists. The concept has many discipline-specific uses and can refer both to a personal psychological state (subjectively) and to a type of social relationship (objectively).
History
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