Social disorganization

Question 1

What is Social Disorganization?

Answer 1

A communities inability to share norms & values plus the inability to solve existing problems in the community.

Question 2

What is the premise of Social Disorganization Theory?

Answer 2

Crime is more likely to happen in areas that are characterized by social disorganization.- These areas typically lack in social cohesion, employment, residential mobility, social networks, etc.

Question 3

What is a natural area in a city?

Answer 3

Areas in cities that have organic unity. ex: China town, Little Italy.

Question 4

What is the process by which park said human communities operate and grow?

Answer 4

Urbanization

Question 5

Urbanization

Answer 5

The increasing concentration of people in urban areas. Social, Economic, and Demographic changes occur when people migrate from rural to urban areas.

Question 6

Shaw and McKay’s key finding with Burgess’s concentric zones

Answer 6

Shaw and McKay discovered that crime is not randomly distributed throughout the city. Areas with high crime rates also had other community problems.

Question 7

Which of Burgess’s zones has the highest crime rate?

Answer 7

Zone 2 (Zone of transition)

Question 8

Which of Burgess’s zones has the lowest crime rates?

Answer 8

Residential zones, upper & middle class

Question 9

3 factors that lead to socially disorganized neighborhoods

Answer 9

Poverty
Ethnic heterogeneity- (different ethnicity)
Residential Mobility- (moving in and out invasion, dominance succession.

Question 10

Traditional model of Social Disorganization

Answer 10

Poverty + Ethnic heterogeneity + Residential Mobility = Social disorganization = Crime