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| the three major theory types that came from the Chicago School |
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| Social Process, Social Development and Social structure |
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| what's the "bumping experiment" from? |
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| Cohen and Nisbett: Culture of Honor (1996) |
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| The 3 types of social structure theories |
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| Strain , Social Disorganization , and Subcultural |
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| Who did concentric zone theory? |
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| what type of social structure theory is the concentric zone theory |
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| Park and Burgess have what type of theory? |
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| Concentric Zone > Social Disorganization > Social Structure |
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| Andrew-Michel Guerry (1802-1866) |
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french lawyer. french crime stats.
-wealthiest region had more property crime but less violent crime
-main factor opportunity
-more education had more crime and visa versa but it was measured by literacy |
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| what were the main points of the MacDonald article (2010) |
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| trying to deny "root causes" theories because crime declined in the recent recession. |
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| The 6 themes identified in rap music by Kobrin (2005) |
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| Respect, willingness to fight or use violence, material wealth, violent retaliation, nihilism, and objectification of woemn |
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| What's Durkheim's anomie mean? |
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normlessness. breakdown of the norms and rules.
Or "deregulation of appetites" p122 |
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| "one of the best known and one of the least understood major social thinkers" |
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| Emile Durkheim (1858 - 1917) |
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| Emile Durkheim's two well known books |
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Division of Labor in Society
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The Suicide |
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| totality of social likenesses - all the uniformity that exists in a society |
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| when do suicide rates tend to increase sharply? |
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| in both periods of economic decline and growth. |
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| according to Durkheim, crime is caused by |
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rapid social change.
I suppose anomie with that is also right... but would have to be both together. |
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| Durkheim's primary impact |
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| focused attn that social forces play a role when the dominant thinking of the time was "free will" or "bio/psych" |
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| name the ppl in "waging a living" |
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| Mary, Jean, Jerry, Barbara and ? |
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| related to crime when poor people all live in the same place. it interacts with overall poverty and influences homicides and robberies |
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| William Julius Wilson, author of the truly disadvantaged: 3 factors contribute to growth of concentrated poverty |
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1. out migration of non-poor whites from urban areas
2. rise in # of ppl in these areas who have become poor
3. move of poor ppl into poor ares |
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(from Shaw) in between the organized natural areas.
-when new residents come in, established relationships binding the location are destroyed |
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| according to Anderson, what is social disorganization? |
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inability of the community to realize common values
-lack of social capital |
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| (Sampson) neighborhood's ability to maintain order in public spaces |
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| incarcerating criminals up to a certain point decreased crime, but past that point, excessive incarceration resulted in increased crime |
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| "middle class values" aka "Protestant work ethic" |
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| in American culture, the institutionalized means that should be used to achieve wealth |
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| (Agnew) individual level, focused on negative relationships with others |
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| what did Durkheim focus on analyzing? |
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(Durkheim)
-phenomena which have existence in themselves, not bound to the actions of individuals.
-ways of thinking, acting, feeling, external to the individual |
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| who postulated mechanical v. organic societies? |
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| what is the role of law in a mechanical society? |
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repressing deviation from the norm
-punishment maintains social solidarity |
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| what is the role of law in an organic society? |
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| regulation and restitution |
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| social mechanics... by... |
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| middle class zone/ residential zone |
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commuter zone
(suburbs found here) |
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| who applied the concentric zone theory to delinquency, and mapped juvenile arrest rates? |
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| Shaw and McKay, students of P+B |
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| according to Shaw and McKay, social disorganization is |
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| the inability of local communities to solve their problems |
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| how do communities become disorganized? |
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1. residential instability
2. racial/ethnic heterogeneity
3. poverty |
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| crime related to other social problems |
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| high truancy, infant mortality, tuberculosis, mental disorders |
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| networks of relationships to achieve common goals |
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| a disjunction btwn means and goals |
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| what does Merton's anomie result from? |
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| overemphasis of goals and sociall structured blockages to means |
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| Merton's 5 modes of adaptation |
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| conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism, rebellion |
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| differential opportunity by |
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