The process that started with the individual coming to the forefront as a result of the regressed scholastic thought and dogmas with the onset of the modern age and the age of reason continues with the problem of social disintegration in the 19th century. In the Renaissance thought that emerged after the Middle Ages, individuals began to question the facts about the Church, a thought process that paved the way for new social rules and norms in society. As a result of the human and knowledge-centred world view, the 19th century degenerates into a struggle between the powerful and powerless among states and societies such as imperialism, capitalism, colonialism and materialism, and the nations that wanted to hold the power tried to justify themselves with such arguments in order to have and maintain power by resorting to almost any means. On the other hand, developments in science and technology during the 19th century caused the transformation of social dynamics and each of these transformations showed how rules and norms were destroyed. When the power struggle of nations pervaded among individuals in the social sphere, it resulted in the individual’s alienation from human values and feelings towards another individual. As a result, corruption of values paved the way first corruption of deep-rooted institutions and then of individuals who had already been accustomed to living under these institutions for centuries; and consequently, especially western social structures got disintegrated and western individuals got fragmented by getting lost in their deteriorating social order or becoming alienated from both their society and the individuals with whom they shared that society