PFP 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Disorganization Theory, Social Control Theory, Social Control
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Focus on techniques and strategies that regulate human behaviour and lead to conformity, or obedience to society"s rules the influences of family and school, religious beliefs, moral values, friends and even beliefs about government. Social control has been conceptualized as representing practically any phenomenon that leads to conformity. Explores formal systems for the control of groups: The legal system, laws, and particularly law enforcement. Social and economic directives of government or private groups. Focuses on broader social structures, such as community structure, economic factors, the ethnic or racial composition of a community and other patterns that characterize groups of people. Often rely on hypotheses that apply to individuals as well as to groups, and frequently make reference to or examine a person"s internal control system. Focuses on the development of high-crime areas in which there is a disintegration of conventional values caused by rapid industrialization, increased immigration, and urbanization.
