Assuming that citizenship does in fact provide this integrative experience, one may
still wonder how this helps someone to become a better person. The answer is that it instills a more secure sense of self, of one’s identity and integrity as a person. One of the most common complaints about modern society is that life tends to be divided into a series of almost discrete compartments. We leave home to go to work, where the division of labor often confines us to a narrow and repetitive task; we leave work to go shopping, where we encounter people we know only as clerks and customers; we leave the store to drive or ride home, seldomseeing a familiar face along the way. Modern, urban society presents a far greater range ofopportunities than earlier forms of society, but it also separates people from one another and splits their lives into fragments (Wirth, 1938). To the extent that active citizenship requires people to see themselves as more than the sum of the various roles they play, it will work to establish a secure sense of self. Anyone who finds this desirable will thus have good reason to believe that the integrative aspects of citizenship will be, at least in the long term, of personal benefit. Of course, there are other ways to deal with the multiplicity of roles and the fragmentation of identity characteristic of modern life. One way is to withdraw into a community of like-minded people. Yet another is to concentrate, so far as the insistent demands of modern life will allow, on a single role – parent, perhaps, or soldier or scholar – to the virtual exclusion of all others. From the republican standpoint, however, citizenship offers a better alternative because it promises an educative as well
สมมติว่าพลเมืองในความเป็นจริงให้ประสบการณ์นี้มองอนาคต หนึ่งอาจstill wonder how this helps someone to become a better person. The answer is that it instills a more secure sense of self, of one’s identity and integrity as a person. One of the most common complaints about modern society is that life tends to be divided into a series of almost discrete compartments. We leave home to go to work, where the division of labor often confines us to a narrow and repetitive task; we leave work to go shopping, where we encounter people we know only as clerks and customers; we leave the store to drive or ride home, seldomseeing a familiar face along the way. Modern, urban society presents a far greater range ofopportunities than earlier forms of society, but it also separates people from one another and splits their lives into fragments (Wirth, 1938). To the extent that active citizenship requires people to see themselves as more than the sum of the various roles they play, it will work to establish a secure sense of self. Anyone who finds this desirable will thus have good reason to believe that the integrative aspects of citizenship will be, at least in the long term, of personal benefit. Of course, there are other ways to deal with the multiplicity of roles and the fragmentation of identity characteristic of modern life. One way is to withdraw into a community of like-minded people. Yet another is to concentrate, so far as the insistent demands of modern life will allow, on a single role – parent, perhaps, or soldier or scholar – to the virtual exclusion of all others. From the republican standpoint, however, citizenship offers a better alternative because it promises an educative as well
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