SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Concentric Zone Model, Anomie, Social Integration

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

The chicago school: researchers at university of chicago social ecology theory claiming that crime is geographically patterned, not evenly distributed society is like an ecosystem. Park and burgess: developed concentric zones of chicago the loop is in the centre, and then there are the slums around them, and residential areas are the largest section on the outside of the circle diagram. Concentric zone model based on chicago but can be applied to more cities: 1. District stores, commercial establishments, hotels, entertainment, 2. Transitional zone cheap and undesirable (rooming houses, hostiles), no pride/community spirit/social ties due to temporary nature of the citizens, transient population (often immigrants), 3. Working-class zone better off, but still not abundant means, apartment buildings, less crime and more community, 4. Commuter zone called this because workers have to commute to business district for work; most affluent, most desirable location. Social disorganization: social controls weakened or severed are disorganizers", susceptible to increased levels of deviance ex.