CRM 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Purch Group, Zope, Ethnography
1 Oct 2015
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Urban disorder and crime: social ecology and the chicago. Positivism also looks at stats, but the chicago school came up with a methodology (a systemic way) of observation and interpretation of the data received. The contexts: social context, rapid urbanization (people came to chicago because of the ending of the industrial. Revolution since there were a lot of cheap labour [tunnels, tracks] and jobs. Most people were from eastern and southern europe. ), mass immigration, surplus labour (this was a term coined by marx. When there were a lot of jobs the capitalists hired people for a cheap wage, but machines eventually took over those jobs which resulted in people getting laid off. They eventually got exploited since they were willing to work for a very low wage just to have a job. Intellectual context: there"s a break between the european and north american scholars.
