Quality World: The Strong Influence Of Urbanization

Urbanization can be considered as a major change that can bring about variations in the social and cultural construct of any location. Socio-cultural changes among urban communities inevitably lead to changes in attitude, worldview, and way of life of urban folks and this is something foreseeable (Ahmad, Z., Ahmad, N., & Abdullah, H., 2009). The characterization of urbanization in the minds of every individual might differ in certain areas but ultimately leads to an impression of positive changes in living conditions. With urbanization in mind, individuals articulate a concrete idealism to form a “Quality World”. The quality world is what Glasser (1998) refers to as the personal picture album. This encompasses certain mental images of persons, things, concepts, and schemes of beliefs that a specific individual embraces as a critical factor in his own needs satisfaction. …show more content…
These five basic needs are the major ideas involving choice theory and Reality Therapy. The quality world pictures of individuals can be changed. This might be challenging but the pictures in the mental realm of others can be altered and this will only be accomplished through "negotiation and compromise" (Nelson-Jones, 2001). In order to follow the movement of Urbanization, the shaping of an individual’s quality world needs to be aligned with the goals and ideals that promote urbanization. This involves choosing to be in the same page as everybody else in the urbanized