The Growth Of The Suburbs

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such as Roseanne and The Simpsons to make his argument that the realities of suburban life are unemployment, dysfunctional families, and, above all stress. Schneider never adequately defines what he means when he states that suburbs are stressful and even seems to refute his own hypothesis when he points out that suburban stress had not produced any large-scale countermovement back to the cities or out to the countryside.
The prevailing imperative of suburban life is security, both economic and physical. The suburban resident values home ownership and the ability to protect the home by building walls around homes and eventually around the entire community that the house is a part of. Schneider then makes a very weak argument that somehow a sense of security has led to a lack of social consensus and, because there is no social consensus, we cannot achieve a political consensus to implement the social consensus. With the evidence given it's difficult to understand how wanting a ...

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