SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ernest Burgess, Midwestern United States, Strange Culture
28 Sep 2018
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Chapter 5 - classical sociological explanations of crime. Origins of sociological thinking can be traced to the work of emile durkheim (1858 - 1917) His studies in crime, suicide (1897), the rules of sociological method (1895), and the division of labour in society (1893) had a major impact on criminological theory over much of the twentieth century & into the twenty-first century. Took a sociological approach to the phenomenon of suicide. Durkheim explained these differences on the basis of varying degrees of social integration and. Durkheim was remarkable for proposing an explanation of behaviour that challenged biological social cohesion and psychological assumptions. He believed that society was not a direct reflection of the characteristics of its individual members. It was more than the sum of its part. In the early twentieth century a group of sociologists at the university of chicago began to examine crime in this midwestern american city on the basis of its spatial distribution.
