SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Differential Association, Takers, Émile Durkheim

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Ryan Broll

Document Summary

Sociological criminologists study group characteristics (social class, gender, age, culture, etc. ) Founding father of sociology (with max weber and karl marx) Particular interest in suicide (1897: using statistics from european countries, he found that differences in suicide rates were the result of individuals having weak ties to their community (anomie) Park and burgess (1967) observed that crime in chicago was geographically patterned (i. e. , was non-random) Shaw and mckay (1942: juvenile delinquency is not evenly distributed, high delinquency rates caused by the types of neighborhoods in which youth grow up, therefore, social disorganization is responsible for crime. Poor economic conditions, ethnic heterogeneity, transient populations. Bursik and grasmik (1993: personal social control: neighbours do not know one another, parochial social control: residents take an active approach by observing strangers, public social control: entire community works together. Merton"s strain theory: anomie: societies inadvertently place pressure, or strain, on individuals that can lead to rule-breaking behavior.