CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Polish Peasant In Europe And America, Social Disorganization Theory, American Sociological Association
10 Jul 2017
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Social context of the chicago school: cities grew at rapid rate during later half of 1800s, 1790-1890: urban population increased 139 times, chicago: 4,100 residents in 1833, one million in 1890 two million in 1910. Social context of the chicago school cont: city grew through successive waves of immigrants, also grew through displaced farm workersand blacks moving from rural south, laborers putting in 12 hour days, low wages living in slums. The progressive movement: emerged in the early 1900s, rejected social darwinism"s notion that the poor were biologically inferior, claimed that people were poor because of social environment. The web of life: symbiosis = mutual interdependence, necessary for organisms to survive in a particular environment, also have invasion, dominance, and succession (balance of nature changes). The polish peasant in europe and america: title of 1920 book by w. i. Thomas and florian znaniecki: w. i. thomas did ph. d at university of chicago, taught sociology at.
