SOC 337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Disorganization Theory, Anomie
24 Feb 2017
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Friday, february 10, 2017 anomie anomie: race, class, and gender. Class privilege and disadvantage are prominent but less attention has been paid to race and gender. Strain did not lead black adults to commit crime despite being to the american dream: strain did lead to crime among white adults. Many countries now promote similar material cultural goals to those of the united states social disorganization theory. Social disorganization theory was popular from the 1920s-1940s. Emerged out of the chicago school theory. Society is constantly shifting from social disorganization to reorganization and back again. Places humans into the context of the plant and animal world. Robert part and ernest burgess: drew upon ideas derived from charles darwin about evolution and social ecology.
