CRM 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Infant Mortality, Ernest Burgess, Surplus Labour
23 Jan 2017
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Urban disorder and crime: social ecology and the chicago school. First dept. of socio in u of chicago in 1892. Theme: human behaviour is developed and changed by the social and physical environment of the person. Social context: rapid urbanization, mass immigration, surplus labour, development of slums populated by immigrants, population boomed in chicago due to the industrial revolution, surplus labour is a term developed by karl marx. A lot of work out there, but factory heads hires people for cheap labour. But the machine takes over the persons labour. Army of human labour that can be put to work (cid:271)ut do(cid:374)(cid:859)t ha(cid:448)e a job. Machines do all the work rather than humans. Ecology: study of plants and animals in their natural habitat and in their relationship to each other. (cid:862) (cid:455)(cid:373)(cid:271)iosis(cid:863: the living together of different species to the mutual benefit of each. Applied the concepts of ecology to communizes. Park: viewed the city as super organism.
