PP&D 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Louis Wirth, Ernest Burgess, Community Cohesion

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Planning, Policy, and Design
• Course: PP&D 4
• Professor: Dr. Walter Nicholls

Document Summary

Life in a small town: the countryside: social and relational conditions, homogenous: low division/ too few people for subgroup formation, overlapping social institutions and ritual events (multiplexed institutions, same people in diff. areas of social life, diff. Numbers + density+ heterogeneity (louis wirth): more relations with others but segmented. Industrial: rationalized spaces, bureaucracies needed to carry this out. Push and pull of urban life: centralization - decentralization, disorganization - reorganization. Social disorganization - reorganization: social disorganization, disturbing forces, economic disruptions, poverty, eviction. Incarceration: ---> breakdown of collective efficacy, breakdown of strong connecting organizations (e. g. churches, pta, scouts, etc. , breakdown of trust, breakdown of informal social control, ---> destructive behavior, short term planning, the hustle economy, normalizing deviant behavior. William foote whyte - complex ways of organizing social life , new people in control to create new norms. Complex power structure allowing them to control cities.