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Explore the impact of cultural transmission and collective efficacy in transitional neighborhoods using the Chicago School's theories. Investigate the consequences of cultural deviance and social disorganization to identify policy implications for community development.

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  1. vocabulary • Transitional neighborhood • cultural transmission • culture conflict • cultural deviance theory • collective efficacy

  2. The Yanomamo The Last Major Stone Age People on Earth

  3. The Yanomamo • Live in Amazon Basin in Venezuela and Brazil

  4. 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

  5. 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.

  6. Concentric Zone Model • Rates for Delinquency were highest in the Zone of Transition and Declined as one Moved away from the Center • ALL Rates were higher • that crime rate and the Census information came from official sources

  7. Concentric Zone Model

  8. Social Disorganization Rapid Changes in industrialization or Immigration Decline in Effectiveness of Informal Social Control (Social Disorganization) Development of delinquency areas: Geographically Rooted

  9. A socially disorganized neighborhood • Culture conflict • lack of cohesiveness • transient population • insufficient social organizations

  10. Cultural deviance • Poverty • socialization • alternate means of obtaining success goal • institutionalization

  11. Policy Implications of the Chicago School(and its offshoots) • Operation Weed and Seed: Weed out negative influences and Seed the neighborhoods • Coordination with law enforcement • Weed out traffickers • Community Policing • Seeding by youth activity

  12. Rodney Starks theory of Deviant Neighborhoods • Dense Neighborhoods have Crowded homes • Crowded homes force family members outside: Increase opportunity to deviate • Lower levels of supervision of children • Poor School Achievement • Mixed use Neighborhoods • Increased Opportunity for Deviance

  13. Policy Implications of the Chicago School(and its offshoots) • Conditions of Parole and Probation • As a condition of your probation, you are not allowed to associate with any other probationers… • The Chicago Area Project(1934) • Recreational Facilities for youth • Existed from 1934-present 70 YEARS! • Direct service, advocacy and community involvement

  14. Differential Association • criminal behavior is learned • learning occurs in interactions with others • learning occurs in in the close personal groups, not the media • learning is definition: • favorable or unfavorable • learning is frequency, duration, priority, and intensity

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