SOC-3340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Disorganization Theory, Infant Mortality, Subculture

• School: App State
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC-3340
• Professor: Kenneth Sanchagrin

Document Summary

Social disorganization theory & collective efficacy: place and crime: shaw & mckay. Zone 1: downtown: department stores, skyscrapers, office buildings, large hotels, theaters, city government, expensive housing. Zone 2: zone in transition (included factory zone : rundown housing, deteriorating neighborhoods, occupied by newly arrived immigrants and the poor who work in downtown and the factory zone. Zone 3: workingman"s zone: mixed-use housing, row houses, apartments, cheaper than downtown and cheaper than outer zones, skilled middle class workers live here. Zones 4 & 5: residential and commuter zones. High rates of residential mobility and racial heterogeneity, run-down housing, poverty, low rates of home ownership, new immigrants. Weak institutional controls loss of control over kids/adolescents transmission of. The theory was hard to test empirically. Demographic correlates of disorganization: poverty, racial/ethnic heterogeneity, residential mobility, and physical deterioration. But, correlates are not, in and of themselves, social disorganization .