CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Albert Reiss, Social Control Theory, Social Disorganization Theory
10 Jul 2017
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1920 1930 ethnic heterogeneity and population turnover socially disorganized areas. People could not talk to each other, no common language, countries may have had issues with each other therefore cultures conflict, immigrants didn"t have much money=settle in poor areas, people didn"t want to invest time in neighbourhoods, busy working. Emile durkheim: durkheim was an order theorist , moral order more fundamental than economic order, committed to preserving the existing social system, regarded society as an organism , society as an entity, greater than its parts. Integration and regulation: integration social forces of attraction social bonds, collective beliefs, regulation social forces of restraint laws and social structure. Conformity: conformity cannot be taken for granted, conformity and social control requires socialization, non-conformity can be expected when social controls are ineffective socialization to see social coneventions, if feel don"t apply to you social conventions can break down. The chicago school: park, burgess, shaw and mckay, concerned with social disorganization.
