CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Differential Association, Social Disorganization Theory, Anomie
21 Mar 2014
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Park and burgess: problem that durkheim had, preoccupied with what makes society possible in the first place in the context of high mobility. Some focused on how you can tame the beast . The chicago school, despite all our differences we can have the same sense of belonging. They see society as an organism, as a set of institutions, practices. Devise a model to understand how society evolves: (their analysis of social change) What concerns the conditions of competition (ecological order) Accommodation: not everyone is happy but there is a solution: assimilation: it will become part of the culture and our regular expectations. Ethnographic work: study and portrayal of ethnic groups/culture; participant observation (will involve the criminologist possibly posing as that ethnic group) Burgess" model of urban evolution: the evolution of the city, concentric circles (zonal), Social disorganization: zone in transition (a lot of ethnic diversity, residential mobility) that will facilitate crime.
