CRIM 2653 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Disorganization Theory, Poverty Trap, Deindustrialization
16 Aug 2016
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Qualitative research in terms of interview, field research began with the chicago school. Like the early criminologists, members of the chicago school (mckay and shaw), had to determine what the unit of analysis is individual v structural: Individual: psychology, anthropologyexplanations rooted in the individual itself. Structural: set of conditions that are beyond any individualthey could have to do with social factors like equality in all of its forms, such as economic opportunity and race and ethnicity and gender. They wanted to see if there was some kind of relationship between general inequality and crime at a local level. The chicago generally were not hostile to quantitative research. They were most interested in understanding how those general patterns manifested themselves in the local or particular contextin order to understand that, they needed to move from quantifiable analysis to qualitative research (field research, interviews)
