SOCI 377 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Disorganization Theory, Content Analysis, Functional Requirement
17 Sep 2015
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Chicago school was engaging in ethnographies, content analysis etc. but with struct funct. things became more theoretical. The belief that there are both manifest and latent functions of deviance: it is necessary in society and actually a good thing. Also all the things that we normally see as a porbaly actually have a function and are beneficial to society. How social conditions are structured to produce deviance. [social structure] patterned arrangement of factors that may impede or limit our ability to make choices and/or engage in deviance. [agency] our ability to exercise free will and make a choices and/or engage in deviance. Chicago school -> too little social structure leads to deviance (rapid social change = social disorganization and a breakdown of the normative order) Functionalism -> goes even further: social structure can produce strain that results in deviance (e. g. you wanna go to university, but your poor(social structure), so you cant afford it, so it causes strain)
