CC290 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Stymie, Centrifugal Force, Economic Stratification
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In this particular study, they relied on data collected in 1995 from 8782 residents in 343. In this way, they could create measures for each neighbourhood on how the residents, as a group or collective, differed from one another. Sunday, may 15, 2016: sampson discovered that informal social control and social cohesion and trust were highly intercorrelated. This nding meant that these two factors were not separate conditions but part of some broader underlying construct: sampson and his colleagues then invented the idea of collective ef cacy . They hypothesized that when people in a neighbourhood trusted and supported one another, they had a basis for binding together to control disorderly and criminal behaviour. This did not mean that people went about ghting crime on a daily basis. Rather, collective ef cacy implied that when disruptive conduct arose, the people in these neighbourhoods had the cohesiveness to act in an effective way to solve the problem.
