Forcing Shaping Modern Metropolitan Community Life and Relationships

HISTORICAL TRENDSIN THE MOST ENCOMPASSING SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT

HAVE THE MOST PERVASIVE AND ENDURING INFLUENCE OVER SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS, COMMUNITIES, FAMILIES,

AND INDIVIDUAL VALUES AND PERSONALITY•An analysis of the contemporary forces in our society and its institutions that engender social and personal disorders. •And, an analysis of the social, religious, political, educational, and judicial institutions designed to manage these problems, but, inadvertently perpetuate and exacerbate them.

The Course of Recent Human Social Evolution in America and Other Post Industrial Nations:

Human Social Evolution Exhibits a Dialectical Tension

Between Social Structure and Human NatureBetween Institutionalization and Personal Freedom

Between Formalization and AuthenticityBetween Authoritarian Control and Personal Responsibility

Between Professional Preemptory Expertiseand Self Determination and Personal Growth

Changes and Modern Trends in Gender Dominance Has Been Profoundly Effected By and Has Had

Profound Effects On the Nature of:

• Technological Advances, • Competition, • Profit Motives,• Ends Justifies Means Mentality,• Romantic Embroilment,• Love, • Marriage, • Family As Economic Pressure,• Current Social Instability

Humanism Has Been Defeated in the Dialectical Struggle With Structure

with Disastrous Consequences for Human Well Being

• The state and structure has gained a decidedly upper hand through:– regulation of interactions between humans;– imposition of the will of the state;– usurpation of human intentionality;– with intervention in interpersonal conflicts and social affairs replacing

interpersonal growth.• The individual capitulated to the paternalistic state and became

infantilzed.• As society has become increasingly institutionalized,

the individual has become increasingly depersonalized.• The result is social irresponsibility; impersonal rage; insensitivity;

intolerance; ruthless exploitative selfishness; litigiousness; casuistry; callousness; hedonism and materialism; loss of care and human bonds; paranoia-prejudice-fear; blaming; preoccupation with revenge; craving for punishment.

Transitions in American Population Density and Location, Social History, and Their Effects on American Character, Criminal Justice, and Social Sanity

• Transitions from agrarian-rural to agrarian-town to industrial-urban to post industrial-communications Eras.

Dispersed Rural Agrarian

Urbanized Industrial

Metro-plexed and Mobilized Post Industrial

Property crimes,

theft, individual

combatCrimes of passion,

face to face conflict,

unfair competitionExploitation,

protectionism,

social injustice,

civil disobedience

Hate crimes and gang

warfare, fraud, organized

and white collar crime,

spouse and child abuseBreach of contract, scams,

misrepresentation, vindictive

litigation. Random violence,

vice, moral aggression

TRANSITIONS CHANGE PERSONALITY and CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Localized Town Agrarian

Work and Population Characteristics

Relationship Characteristics

Personal-Non-Social

Personal-Social

Social- Impersonal

Anti-Social-Impersonal-Mass Information

Non-Social-Impersonal-Collective Communications

Simultaneously Increasing Socio-Cultural Knowledge and Depersonalization

Rural-Agrarian Slow, Infrequent Travel and Communication

Urban-Industrial Increased Travel and Long Distance Communication

Globalization Post-Industrial-Multiple-Immediate Audio-Visual Communications

Evolution of Configurations of Human Collective Living Arrangements and Modes of Mobility Across Distances

Economic Ascendance Led to Destruction of Community, Mental Health, Parent Child Bonds, and Increase in Alienation, Dis-Empowerment, and Lawlessness

• Characteristics of modern society– Worker mobility– Technological advance– Increasing standard of living– Pressure to keep up– Debt oriented economy– Dog eat dog competition

– No bonds or loyalty between employer

and employee– Dual career families

– Turning personal, community responsibilities over to institutions and agencies

• Effects on mental health and criminality– No bonds to neighbors or neighborhood– Women freed from domestic work– Worth measured by possessions– Stressed out, insecure parents– Economic insecurity– Distrust and alienation in workplace

between consumer and providers of goods and services

– Us against them usurps community

– Prevents bonds between parents and children - little supervision or guidance - alienation, us against them mentality between parents and children, everyone projecting blame

– Dis-empowerment of parents and neighborhoods, estrangement within communities

CHARACTERISTICS OF CONTEMPORARY NEIGHBORHOODS

AND THEIR RELATION TO INCIDENCE OF EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS AND VIOLATIONS OF LAW

•As the Population Per Square Mile Increases, the Incidence of the Following Problems Increase:

– Emotional Problems –Violations of Law.

•Other Factors Contributing to These Problems Are:– Family Size or Number Persons Per Square Footage of Living Space, –Decreased Level of Education, –Poverty, –Lack of Proper Diet and Medical Care.

•Density of Population, Alone, May Be the Primary Factor Working Against the Possibility of Positive Neighborhood Characteristics.

HYPOTHETICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF NEIGHBORHOODS BY POPULATION DENSITY

A. UPPER STRATA D. WHITE COLLAR

1 2 3 4 51 2 3 4 51 2 3 4 51 2 3 4 51 2 3 4 5

1 2 3 4 51 2 3 4 51 2 3 4 51 2 3 4 51 2 3 4 5

OPENPERSONALORGANIZEDREWARDINGPRODUCTIVE

NEIGHBORHOOD DIMENSIONS

Approximately .2 sq. mile has 12 sq. blocks with1 house per block X 4 persons per house = population of 48

Approximately .2 sq. mile has 12 sq. blocks with 4 houses per block and 4 persons per house = population of 192.

CRIME, MENTAL HEALTH AND NEIGHBORHOOD STRUCTURE

C. BLUE COLLAR D. MANUAL LABOR1 2 3 4 51 2 3 4 51 2 3 4 51 2 3 4 51 2 3 4 5

1 2 3 4 51 2 3 4 51 2 3 4 51 2 3 4 51 2 3 4 5

OPENPERSONALORGANIZEDREWARDINGPRODUCTIVE

NEIGHBORHOOD DIMENSIONS

Approximately .2 sq. mile has 60 houses with 8 persons per house. Total = 480 persons per .2 sq. mile

Approximately .2 sq. mile houses 16 project apartment units with 24 apartments per unit with 6 residents per apartment. Total = 2304 persons.

Characteristics of the Economy and Their Effects on Crime, Justice,

Mental Health, Corrections, and Welfare of Societies.

Company 1.

Company 2.

Competitors in Goods or Services

With similar products, to win, they must try to lower costs, increase productivity, invent a superior product, present better advertising, marketing, or delivery.

As begins to win, its rival either continues to go down until it is no longer able to compete or find a way to get away with tactics that are unfair or illegal.

Company 1.

Company 2.

People who work for Company 1 may be asked to execute or endure unfair or illegal internal tactics or tactics relating to their market.

Company 1 is losing

Company 2 is winning

Company 1.

Company 2.

Company 2 may raid 1 for valued employees or trade secrets.

Company 1 is caving in

At this stage, Company 2 may buy 1, or cause them to close, thus ending the competition and dominating the market.

Employees of 1 may strike, sue, betray and sell out their company. They are faced with anxiety over unethical or illegal choices, loss of integrity, despair over their future and welfare of their family.

Company 2, dominating the market, may use their position of dominance in a way that exploits their dependent customers

Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4

Some Products or Services Are Harmful Physically, Psychologically, or Economically to Customers, Societies, or

the Environment•When the effects of a product or service are harmful and those offering the product or service know of the harm, they have three choices.

•1. They can get out of the business.

•2. They can stay in and convince themselves that what they are doing is alright by altering their belief systems.

•3. They can live with the psychological consequences that come from knowing that they chose to continue delivering the harmful product or service.

•All of the above choices involve the dilemma that if they do not persist in the business, their livelihood and the welfare of their family is at stake, while if they do persist, harm is being done to other people and/or the environment.

•Accepting the fate of living with this dilemma is what our society calls growing up and becoming realistic and practical, accepting necessary evil.

•The consequences for the culture as a whole is that everyone must be suspicious of everyone in any business or occupation. This is a culture of alienation.

•People with suppressed guilt and pervasive suspicion and alienation typically look for a scapegoat on which to unload their own unsettling feelings.

Chances for Success in Life As a Result of the Conditions of Life Into Which a Person Is Born

Chances for success in life

0 %

100 %

Bell curve distribution of life conditions a person is born into

Chance for

success in life

Hypothetical starting line at birth

Above average birth conditions: economic, social, educational, family maturity, neighborhood culture.

Below average birth conditions: economic, social, educational, family maturity, neighborhood culture.

Below average success

Above average success

Starting with a very long head start

Starting very far behind

If everyone were to truly have an equal start in life, would the system force an unequal distribution?

MODERN METROPOLITAN LIFE• The Evolution of Urbanization, Technology, Mobility, Communications,

Industrialization, Formalization of Institutions, Increasing Stratification of Society, Gender Role Transformations Have All Converged to Produce a New Reality. The personalities of people growing up in this culture are all unconsciously shaped by its values and customs.

– Their particular, local, life conditions can give them vastly different interpretations of these customs and values.

– They may enact them in vastly different ways. – However, this is the only set of values and customs they know, this is reality for

everyone. – A person growing up in an impoverished ghetto and a person growing up in a elite

neighborhood both in some sense have the same values and customs.– The one feels victimized by them but powerless to do anything about it..– The other feels authorized and even mandated to abide by them and typically does so

with impunity because that is reality. • Everyone Is Thrown Into Contemporary Society and Benefits or Suffers From It

Without Realizing That It Is an Arbitrarily Evolved Social Configuration and Not an Inevitable Destiny.

– People who grow up in a culture assimilate its values and customs adapt them to their own personalities.

– When one breaks a law by stealing a small appliance and the other has a successful business that gives cancer to millions of people, neither questions the inequity of the law and dispensation of justice in their respective cases.

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