CRM 302 Lecture Notes - Criminology, Word Association, Thomas Theorem
5 Apr 2013
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Cultural context chicago in the 1920s. Contributors william i. thomas, park & bergers, snow & mckay. Part of the first wave of german sociologists/social scientists (durkheim"s equivalent in. Gemeinshaft ( gemein comes from the word community which invokes thoughts of. Communities were smaller, less populous, and homogenous in terms of. Came up with two concepts in understanding transformations in living, known as two kinds of. Survival, common interest, simple division of labour. Mostly because they simple felt they belonged due to similarity above all else. Single biggest force of this was industrialization and the urbanization that came with it. Transition from rural to urban was, according to toennies, moving from gemein to gessel . Gesselshaft ( gessel comes from the word association which invokes thoughts of distance, They also shared very similar beliefs/attitude/values/morals and were technologically simple. Significant change resulted in transformation of how we lived professional/impersonal/indirect relationships, a weaker sense of togetherness) heterogenous/diverse in terms of ethnicity/race.
