SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Herbert J. Gans, Social Disorganization Theory, Hull House
The City
➢ The Metropolis
➢ How have cities led to the establishment of sociology?
o Many underprivileged people migrated to cities looking for work
o Cities have almost always grown up around trade and
manufacturing
➢ Chales Booth’s Poet Map
o Kal Ma a spete has falle oe Euope
o Marx had been living in German cities and then London, which he
saw as a large workhouse
➢ Charles Dickins, Our Mutual Friend
o His novels were serialized weekly in the newspaper
o Stories about wealth and poverty in London
o Critic of exploitation, injustice and inequality
o Made a living from garbage and dust
➢ Emile Durkheim: Anomie
o Anomie: alienation
o A psychic disassociation from ourselves and our relationships with
other people and social structures
o Discusses suicide and individualism
➢ George Simmel: The Stranger/Money
➢ Ellis Island
o This is where people come and go from in NY
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