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Chicago School

Chicago School. Empirical Sociology Get off your chairs and study social groups Life History: Ethnography Investigating cumulative factors Ecological Study Study Large groups of people. Data Collection. Official Data Crime Figures Census reports Charts Life History Ethnography

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Chicago School

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  1. Chicago School • Empirical Sociology • Get off your chairs and study social groups • Life History: Ethnography • Investigating cumulative factors • Ecological Study • Study Large groups of people

  2. Data Collection • Official Data • Crime Figures • Census reports • Charts • Life History • Ethnography • Ecological School

  3. Robert Park and Ernest Burgess (1920’s and 1930’s) • The City is akin to the body as the sum of its organs. • The City of Chicago is Concentric Zones radiating from the central business district • Just Like Plant Ecology • Dominance • Invasion • Succession

  4. Social Disorganization W.I. Thomas/Florian Znaniecki • The Polish Peasant in Europe and America • A condition that exists when a group is faced with social change, uneven development of culture, maladaptiveness, disharmony, conflict and lack of consensus.

  5. Social Disorganization Theory ( Shaw and McKay) • Society is a kind of organism • Crime and Deviance is the Disease (from the offshoot of Social Disorganization called Social Pathology or Social Ecology)

  6. Social Disorganization Theory • CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT • ZONE OF TRANSITION • ZONE OF WORKINGMAN’S HOMES

  7. The Park and Burgess Model

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