...not of itself insure the consistency and integrity of the personalities whose interests it enlists. Personal disorganization, mental breakdown, suicide,...expected under these circumstances to be more prevalent, (pp. 46-47) In somewhat the same spirit, David Riesman wrote more recently that the advocacy of group...

...would have noted many positive features of city life, Park, Wirth, and their colleagues did claim that "personal disorganization, mental breakdown, suicide,...crime, corruption, and disorder might be expected ... to be more prevalent in the urban than in the rural community."4 Some sociologists today also endorse...

...solidarity." Wirth (1956: 130) considered this mode of life to be difficult for individuals so that "personal disorganization, mental breakdown, suicide,...to be more prevalent in the urban than in the rural communities." This would be the case for groups, like eastern European Jews who he (1956: 268) claimed...

...not of itself insure the consistency and integrity of the personalities whose interests it enlists. Personal disorganization, mental breakdown, suicide,...prevalent in the urban than in the rural community. This has been confirmed in so far as comparable indexes are available, but the mechanisms underlying...

...not of itself insure the consistency and integrity of the personalities whose interests it enlists. Personal disorganization. mental breakdown. suicide....prevalent in the urban than in the rural community. This has been confirmed insofar as comparable indices are available: but the mechanisms underlying...

...undermining of the traditional basis of social solidarity." Wirth considered urban life so difficult that "personal disorganization, mental breakdown, suicide,...to be more prevalent in the urban than in the rural communities." This would be the case for groups such as eastern European Jews, who, he claimed, "were...