In The Social Sciences
- Polarization (economics), an economic process where middle-class jobs disappear more than those at the bottom and the top
- Polarization (politics), the process by which the public opinion divides and goes to the extremes
- Polarization (psychology), the process whereby a social or political group is divided into opposing sub-groups
- Social polarization
- Attitude polarization
- Group polarization
- Racial polarization, the process whereby a population with varyingly diverse ancestry is divided into distinct, homogenous racial groups
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