Davidson's article is important because it shows the interplay between economic forces (globalization and technology) and social forces (single parenthood and the breakdown of community support).
Putnam had studied the breakdown of community and the increasing individual isolation that modern society engenders, most famously described in his 2000 book, "Bowling Alone".
"There are some fairly major social and political consequences," he said, suggesting the move to online shopping was contributing towards a breakdown of community – something that "no one thinks about".
The breakdown of community — of church and neighborhood and work that provides a firm identify — has forced us to find alternative ways of determining our place in the social order.
Kidnappings have also risen, while hardly a month goes by without violent riots in Brazil's brutalised, overcrowded prisons.Drugs, rising unemployment, and the breakdown of community ties caused by migration all play a part.
Her carefully patterned work is in a tradition of paranoid pictures about surveillance and voyeurism that began with Fritz Lang's Dr Mabuse in the early 1920s, and it touches current feelings about alienation, intrusions into private life and breakdown of community.
I have a stark warning for those hatemongering and irresponsible media agencies: if your biased and unfair reporting leads to breakdown of community cohesion, violence and death, history will not forgive you - for you would be no different than those who preach and promote hate.
In their seminal 1982 article on the subject in the Atlantic, Kelling and Wilson suggested that just as an "untended" building with one broken window was eventually likely to end up with all its windows broken, "'untended' behavior also leads to the breakdown of community controls".
The program began just as soldiers were returning from World War II, a time of "profound breakdown of community," said Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, a distinguished professor in the humanities at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St . Louis
In Angola and the DRC, decades of conflict has caused the breakdown of community networks and families, contributing to the increase in witchcraft accusations against children.
