SOC 2112 Lecture 10: SOC 2112 - week 10

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2112
• Professor: William Flynn

Document Summary

The city suggestions for the study of human nature in the urban. Helped to establish the chicago school-erving goffman was also a part of this social interactions, microsociology, urban sociology and criminology. Pioneer in urban sociology-esp immigration and migration studies and race. Predicted that cities would take the form of five concentric rings with areas of social and physical deterioration**** Low income areas: high turn over or population and high crime rate. Looked at social factors that causes crime. Broken windows is a modern day version of this. When abnormal things are normal, people are more likely to do them. The high turnover of people in the zone of transition resulted in the idea of social disorganization . A lack of clear, moral, guide-lines (norms) deriving from a settled, stable, community structure resulted in a lack of informal social controls and hence a high rate of crime. Sociological explanation of higher crime rate rather than individualistic.