SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Subculture, White-Collar Crime, Social Disorganization Theory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Michelle Dumas

Document Summary

Looking at the ways in which things grow naturally and then comparing them to humans. Species can become incompatible to another if environment changes. Changes in 1 part of the system can affect other parts of the system. Look at growth patterns and urban expansion. Concentric zones (categorizes people, process of competition for valuable land) Zone 1 - the loop, more expensive land, centre of city (government, business, banks, hotels. Zone 2 - transitional/ transitory zone - next to business core, always in transition, property values here sharply eroded, afraid of being bought out buy big business, cheap rent (nickname; inner-city ), ethnic or religious ties (china town) Zone 3- working class residential zone, working class families, migrated out of zone. 2, can have ethnic and religious ties(little italy) Zone 4 - middle-class residential area - single family dwellings, office: doctors, brighter than downtown. Zone 5 - commuter zones- affluent population zone, suburbia, bigger properties,