CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Disorganization Theory, Informal Social Control, Class Stratification
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Social structure theory: sociological theories that examine the effects of class stratification in society. The chicago school: sociological theories looking at the social ecology of the city and urban crime: they were sociologists who came from this school. Social ecology: the branch of biology that studies the relationships between organisms and their environment. Middle-class to lower-class mixed use. (usually has the highest crime rates: zone 3: working class zone: small house, zone 4: residential zone: outskirts of toronto have little plazas, and apartments where families live. An example of this could be a townhouse: zone 5: commuter zone: suburbs. Inability of a community structure to realize the common values of its residents and maintain effective social controls: not everyone knows each other, in this kind of community not everyone has the same values. Formal (put bumps in road because someone is speeding) and informal (people got together and tell the person"s parents he is speeding) social networks.
