Breakdown of local community cohesion

Communities no longer see themselves as groups of people concerned with others, and no longer have the discipline needed to attain a common vision. Many present-day communities consist of groups of isolated individuals struggling to relate to the demands of urbanization and industrialization, having withdrawn and become isolated from meaningfully taking part in world society. The effect of loss of a sense of destiny, isolationism and a failure to live beyond the moment is also illustrated in the collapse of the family as a unit.

1. Socio-cultural environment degradation
2. Reappearing signs of underdevelopment in industrialized countries
3. Loss of enemy
4. Impoverished social environment
5. Disorganized liaison with formal support
6. Deteriorating community identity
7. Community under-fulfilment

1. Widespread community factionalism
2. Personal isolation in modern communities
3. Lack of symbolism in local relationships
4. Lack of social contact
5. Lack of commitment to common symbols
6. Insufficient common experience
7. Imbalance in distribution of political awareness
8. Disengagement of citizens from community activities
9. Deteriorating rural community cooperation
10. Decline in local community spirit
11. Communication breakdown
12. Anti-community attitudes

1. Prevailing community insecurity
2. Inhibited capacity to visualize a creative future
3. Fragmented community image
4. Argumentative community meetings
5. Dumbwalking

1. Unstructured local government in small communities
2. Unchallenging world vision
3. Unaesthetic location of advertising billboards
4. Thwarted community enthusiasm
5. Shrinking community life
6. Scattered housing locations
7. Limited and fragmented outlook of civic minded groups
8. Destruction of economic and social institutions
9. Delusions over responsibility for community improvements
10. Collapse in the meaning of participating in society
11. Breakdown of tribal structure
12. Attenuation of group relationships

1. Old Believers

1. Structural failure of citizen participation
2. Dietary restrictions

1. Limiting identification with community
2. Increasing identification with neighbourhood community
3. Increasing effectiveness of local unity
4. Increasing civic awareness
5. Forging distinctive community identity
6. Achieving local unity

1. Limitedness
2. Unsettled
3. Indistinct
4. Reduction
5. Breakdown
6. Ineffectiveness