SOC212H1 Study Guide - Participant Observation, Theoretical Ecology, Technological Change
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The idea that pathology can exist at the social level is characteristic of the social disorganization perspective. This view dominated the sociology of deviance from the 1890s to the mid-1930s and later formed the basis for interactionist, social learning, and control theories. Religion, which had been largely irrelevant to classical theory, now served as a motivating factor in the scientific study of society. A variety of people took up the challenge to understand the sources of urban squalor and to do something about them. The founders of sociology auguste comte, herbert spencer, vilfredo pareto, emile. Main argument of chicago school holds that rapid social change leads to a breakdown of common values and regulation in certain parts of society, thereby allowing anomic forms of deviance like suicide and mental illness to emerge. Chicago theorists such as charles horton cooley emphasized the importance of primary relations (informal, face-to-face, personal interactions) over secondary relations (formal, direct, less personally involving)
