SOC 2760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Informal Social Control, Social Disorganization Theory, Physical Disorder

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2760
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

Methodological contributions: official data (crime rates, figures, census reports) to apply to geography, life history & ethnography. Human ecology & social ecologists: likens human communities to plant & animal communities, 2 observations, racial, class, other groups affect one another"s daily lives, groups are affected also by urban environment, normal condition is equilibrium and order. Accommodation organisms lvingin together in the same space. Sucession- accommodation doesn"t always happen one group may become extinct. Symbiosis- a condition of mutual interdependence among organisms in an env that is necessary fro their survival (reliance on one another) Key: change in one part of the system invariably affects other system components. Similarly: industrial and commercial estb reclaim slum areas. Modern banks businesses gov offices replace rundown buildings. Gentrification: process of creating a neighbourhood that"s more middle class. No where bc they can"t afford to move/travel for work etc. Burgess argued that a series of concentric zones emerges from ecological competition.