SOC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ritualism In The Church Of England, Counterculture, Social Disorganization Theory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2700
• Professor: Reza Barmaki

Document Summary

First time that sociologists took part in criminology/ started looking at crime in a sociological point of view. Deviant subculture= first emerged in the work of chicago school, however was more specifically defined by albert cohen. The chicago school focused on sociological factors such as racism and crime, social institutions and crime etc. The idea of rapid change was acknowledged by durkheim and he claimed it would lead to a state of anomie. Rapid change in the structure of society leads to a change in culture. Social disorganization theory was one of the first schools of thought to begin studying gangs. Social disorganization theory states that the cause of crime is a culture that accepts or promotes crime aka a deviant subculture. This theory had an immense impact on criminology, it debunked the warped thinking of pseudo- scientific biological theories that led to immoral practices such as eugenics.