CRIM 104 Lecture 2: CRIM 104 SEPT 25 14.docx

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 104
• Professor: Colleen Pawlychka

Document Summary

Chicago school legacy: diverse group of sociological and criminological scholars that were associated to the first department in chicago university: gave rise to theoretical orientations, ecological and social disorganization theory, symbolic interactionism, culture conflict theory, labeling theory, social learning theory. Sd theory hypothesized rel"shp between increase social complexity and higher rates of deviance esp. in urban areas: accepted ecological assumptions, when society demonstrated harmony and behavioural regularity= social organization, the web of life, symbiosis= mutual interdependence necc. Origins of sd: parks and burgess, the city of chicago wasn"t random it was patterned, parks, organic approach city as social organism, order happens naturally, human community adaptive system. Competition primary organizing agent: burgess concentric rings, concentric zones, cities were characterized by 5 concentric zones, zone 1 central and business and industrial district, zone 2 transition zones or slum areas, always in a state of change, where workers originally lived when they came to.