SOC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ideal Type, Luxurious, Gentrification

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2700
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

Incorporate this with few more micro approaches (life history and ethnography) Development of youth peer groups and increased peer activity cultural transmission of delinquent and criminal values delinquent and criminal behaviour. Neighborhood effects: when there is an increase in physical disorder, there is more physical conflicts in people living there, schools that have more disorder have lower test scores on eqao, there are some positive aspects too. Indicates that there is some collective ties, sense of community, creates informal social controls. 3 levels of community control: private, the people around us (family) If something happened to you they would notice. Individuals who do not know us on a personal level but provide us with safety (police) If there is no community, you will not have these levels of community control. Social capital & collective efficacy: social capital. The resources transmitted through social ties, not the ties per se, that are key to facilitating social control.