The Function of Neighboring for the Middle-Class Male

The popular literature on man in a modern urban civilization presents the image of persons divested of enduring social ties, caught between conflicting pressures, and vulnerable to a depersonalized social world. This imagery of man accommodating to a new kind of human environment needs careful appraisal before it can be assumed that structural tensions have a one-to-one relationship with tensions experienced by individuals or that the passing of older norms have left vacuums.