SOSC 2650 Lecture Notes - School Shooting, Edwin Sutherland, Broken Windows Theory
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Lecture overview: social structure theories, chicago school and social disorganization, broken windows theory, social process theories, differential association theories. Examples: strain theory, social disorganization theory (chicago school, cultural deviance theory. Social disorganization theory: conditions in urban environment affect crime rates, use society as a unit, but also a community as a unit of analysis, break down of institutions of social control; institutions such as families, schools and housing. *low income level, high unemployment rate, high rates of school dropouts, actual physical ideas of the neighborhood, and also the number of single parent households. Neighborhood income level *infer the income level by looking at the deteriorated housing, public housing or the area itself, and sometimes some scholars will infer the income level if the neighborhood lacks essential services. Shaw and mckay: chicago school: unit and analysis: american city; not society and not even neighborhoods, but rather the. American social positivism: mapped the geological areas; divided city in different zones.
