SOC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Disorganization Theory, Wildfire, Ideal Type

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

Document Summary

Methodological contribuions: oicial data (crime rates, igures, census reports) to apply to geography. Certain areas of the city are more crime prone. Life history and ethnography (immerse oneself in a paricular group) Likens human communiies to plant and animal systems. Racial, class and other groups afect one another"s daily lives. Groups are afected by urban environment (natural boundaries like rivers, property values, etc. ) Invasion - new species or organism moves into a new territory. Segregaion - planet species are clustered; not much interrelaionship. Natural areas - species favour areas where they lourish. Dominance - relaive strength of one group over another. Accommodaion - organisms living together in the same space. Succession - accommodaion doesn"t always happen; one group may become exinct o. There may be a conlict and the dominant group may succeed. Symbiosis - a condiion of mutual interdependence among organisms in an environment that is necessary for their survival (reliance on one another)