Week 9: Social Disorganisation

Question 1

Social Disorganisation theory is:

= “P___ MATTERS”

Answer 1

= place matters
= crime rates to neizbourghoods ecological characteristics; core principles of social disorganisation theory is that a place matters.

Question 2

The Chicago school of Sociology Mapped out:

Answer 2

= Mapped out the residential locations of youth who had been refereed to the Chicago juvenile court

Question 3

How did Robert E. Park view the city:

Answer 3

= analogous to the communities to fauna & Flora

Question 4

Social disorganisation theory does not argue:

= Social and ethnic composition are causes of _____

Answer 4

That social & community ethnic compositional are causes of criminality

Question 5

High_____ in the area = ????

Answer 5

High crime in the area = Social Disorganisation in that area

Question 6

What external Factors that effect social disorganisation:

1. Residential ___
2. Social C_____
3. F____ Disruotion

Answer 6

1. social class
2. Residential mobility
3. Family disruption

Question 7

What are Sampsons and Grooves 3 key components of social disorganisation:

1. lack of C____ S___ of teenagers
2. Informal F___ Networks
3. Participates in F____ organisations

Answer 7

1. lack of community Supervision of teenagers
2. Informal Friend Networks
3. Participates in Formal organisations

Question 8

Quetlet and Guery were the first to base a criminological theory on: Em____ Data

They Found: Wealthier ____

Answer 8

= Empirical Data

= They found criminals are more commonly resided in the wealthier districts with higher educational levels

Question 9

Andre- Michel Guerry (1933): used french offical crime data which helped produce:
and
Where who resided:

Answer 9

= crime maps

= where the people who have been charged previously resided

Question 10

According to Sampson “Collective Efficacy” was the:

= Key underlying S___ mechanisms in S____ D___ Theory

Answer 10

= Key underlying Social Mechanisms in Social Disorganisation theory

Question 11

What are the 2 inter- related dimension of collective efficacy:

1. S____ C____ & mutual Suppor
2. Shares expectations for social control

Answer 11

1. social Cohesion 5 mutual suppor

2. shares expectations for social control

Question 12

What is “self- Efficacy”:

Answer 12

= Self appraisal

Question 13

What is CAP:

Who by: S___ 7 Ma___

Answer 13

Chicago Area project

= Shaw and Macky

Question 14

Erned W.Burges (1925) used what ecology:

With what theory:

Answer 14

= Urban ecology

= Concentric Zone Theory

Question 15

Concentric Zone theory is by who:

Answer 15

E.W.Burgees

Question 16

What other names does the concentric zone theory go by:

(2) possible answers

Answer 16

1. CCD model

2. Burgees theory

Question 17

What is the concentric theory explain:

=U____ S____ S____

Answer 17

= urban Social Structure

Question 18

What are the 5 Zones of the Concentric Zone:

Answer 18

Zone I=Central Business District: Shops
Zone II= Transitional Zone: Poor/ Factories
Zone III= Working class zone: Single family tennants
Zone IV= Residential ZOne: Middle class/ white collar
Zone V= Commuter Zone: Suburbs/ White collar