Analysis: The Wilding Of America

The main thing I learn from reading The Wilding of America and doing this exercise is that every problem in the world in connected in one way or another. The definition of wilding from the book The Wilding of American is when one’s “self-interest or self-indulgent behavior hurts others and weakens social fabrics”. There are many forms of wilding and many causes of wilding. Some forms of wilding are; economic, political, social, instrumental, expressive, individual, institutional, environmental, and systematic. The factors of motives, domains, perpetrators, and physicality determine if the act is one of wilding. Under motives for wilding are both instrumental and expressive wilding. Instrumental wilding is when wilding occurs for money or …show more content…
The types of perpetrators of wilding are individual, institutional, and systematic. Individual wilding is when one specific perpetrator is wilding by themselves. Institutional wilding is done by corporations, governments, churches, or other institutions. Systematic wilding is wiling perpetrated by economic systems such as capitalism or cultural systems. Lastly, is the physicality of wilding are violent and non-violent wilding. Violent wilding is wilding that involves physical violence. On the opposite side is non-violent wilding which is wilding that is not physically violent such as white-collar …show more content…
I learned from reading The Wilding of America that there are a lot more crimes happening than just the violent shooting and such on the streets. Some of the white-collar crimes effect a much greater amount of people than say the over publicized cop shootings. The cop shooting are blown out of portion by the media, then making individuals do wilding acts to retaliate against the “violent” cops. The media can be seen as a type of wilding because it portrays things in negative ways that they are not meant to be portrayed as. This thus informs the people watching of incorrect information because the media displayers want more people to watch. Sometimes a lie is going to be much more interesting than the truth so they will tell that lie instead to get more views. More views, mean more money and potential raises. This is an act of self-interest that is hurting others and weakening social fabrics.
Self-interested act that harm others could also be considered a social problem. Manis defines a social problem as “any social condition identified by the knowledge values of sciences as detrimental to human well-being”. Thus by both the book The Wilding of America and Manis definition they combined to generate an idea that wilding is a social problem, and a social problem is wilding. A social problem is determined if the magnitude, severity, and primacy are large enough,