SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: White-Collar Crime, Social Control Theory, Complex Number

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Michelle Dumas

Document Summary

Human ecology model -based their theory of plants and the environments to apply it to humans. The way living matter lives in their environment. Some species end up perishing as a result. One part of the system affects another part of the system. Looking at the way humans create their own environment and engage with other species and other people in that environment. The competition in urban cities for resources is the result of many people living in one area. Zone one: business core businesses, government offices, in the core or loop of the city, most expensive. Zone two: transitional zone, it is always in transition, property value is cheap because people don"t take care of the properties (the inner city or the ghetto), it is expected that people will move out. Zone three: two and three family dwellings, working class families, people who have migrated out of zone two and can afford somewhere better, working class, residential zone.