SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Uptown Girl, Billy Joel, Symbolic Interactionism
12 May 2013
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Applying the 4 paradigms to population and urbanization. Durkheim: urban environments = anomie (collapse of social norms) Cities were characterized by an absence of social solidarity and group cohesion. Mechanical solidarity: people have a clear sense of the moral code pre-industrial society. Felt that there was a strong sense of solidarity and it was shaped by religion, he felt that city life had a lot of pathology associated with it. Pathologies: crime, juvenile delinquencies, family breakdowns. According to durkheim, social pathologies of city life happened: with the transition from mechanic to organic solidarity. Role of class-relations and divisions between working and capitalist classes. Malthus believed that: population growth would exceed the food supply. Capitalists need excess population to keep wages low. D. more affluent people moving into economically depressed neighbourhoods. Because the neighbourhood is run down, property values are low. Because of this, you have people with low ses living there.
