erstanding of which can be seen by an analysis of individual needs and individual reactions to environmental stimuli. Such an analysis may lend to a better understanding of not only how negative individualism develops in the U.S., but appropriate means by which these negative developments of individualism can be avoided in the future without loss of unique American individualism that stands as a forefront of American success and prosperity.Such an analysis, however, must consider both the individual as a unique human being, with individual wants, desires, and needs, as well as the individual responding to environmental queues which affect their behavior by providing either impetus for, or roadblocks to, their needs and desires. Civil society begins to atrophy when collective behavior is the result of a sufficient number of individuals who feel that collective ends are thwarting their own individual needs, resulting in further exaggeration of negative individualism in an effort to regain a balance, perceived or otherwise, between individual and societal needs.The qualitative method utilized in this effort attempts to unravel the disintegration of civil society in consideration of an analysis of the unique balance between individual needs and individuals responding to their environmental. Rapid and advanced industrialization, as in the United States, creates the foundation for an atmosphere of increased isolationism, or anomy, and individualistic tendencies. Efforts by individuals to fulfill their psychological needs and respond to environmental stimuli in this atmosphere results in political behavior that aggravates individualism, further widening the gap between individual and collective ends in essence a snowball effect, whereby individualism breeds further division and disunity through the reactions of individuals to societal behavior (environmental stimuli) that seems to increasingly address individual, opposed to collective, en...
