CC100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Gunnar Myrdal, Oscar Lewis, Class Stratification
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The social ecology school: social ecologists: those whose approach looks at community-level indicators of social disorganization, such as disorder, poverty, alienation, and fear of crime. Peers, family, relatives (positive and negative reinforcement) Involvement in conventional social institutions that are blocked results in recruitment into gangs, law-violating groups: public social control. Reduce effects of disorganization and maintain lower levels of crime and victimizations. Both individuals embraced conventional social goals and have the means at their disposal to attain those goals. Conformity is the most common social adaption. Individual accepts the goals of society but is incapable of attaining them through conventional means. Many people desire material goods and luxuries but lack the financial ability to attain them: ritualism. Gain pleasure from the practice of traditional ceremonies that have neither a real purpose nor a goal. Religious orders, feudal societies, clubs, frats, and sororities encourage and appeal to ritualists: retreatists.
