SOC212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Disorganization Theory, Infant Mortality, Group Conflict
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All these people were working together around the same time. Social disorganization (sd) lack of articulation of values within culture and between culture and social structure lack of structure, disjuncture of values in a culture, within culture. Strain theory and merton (consequences of disorganization) Cultural deviance (cd) (focus on socialization into subculture values that conflict with the law) being socialized into a group where their values are in contradiction to the law. Sutherland (pure perspective) rejected idea and thought it was ethnocentric. Sd and cd are thought to have more in common. Can be argued that strain theory are influenced sd & cd. Influenced by their environment and development of the city of chicago in the 1920s. Religious orientated social reformers were preoccupied by waves of foreign born immigrants moving into the city. Rural native america moving up, blacks moving up from the south, ended up being industrial workers in chicago.
