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What is social structure?
The pattern of social organization and
The interrelationship among society's institutions
What is social process?
Interaction between and among social institutions, groups and individuals
What are three sociological explanations of crime?
Crime results from an individual's location within the social structure
Crime is the end product of various social processes, especially inappropriate socialization and social learning
Crime is the product of class struggle
What are the major principles of the social structure perspective?
Explains crime by reference to economic and social arrangements in society
Emphasizes on the relationship among social institutions
Describes the type of behavior that tend to characterize groups of people rather than individuals
What are the three major types of social structure theories?
Social disorganization Theory
Strain theory
Culture conflict theory
What is social disorganization Theory?
Social change, social conflict, and lack of social consensus
Is the root cause of crime and deviance
Sees society as a kind of organism and crime and deviance as a kind of disease or social pathology
What is ecology Theory?
Emphasizes the demographics and the Geographics
And sees the social disorganization that characterizes delinquency areas
As a major cause of criminality and victimization
What is social ecology?
Attempts to link the structure and organization of a human community
To interactions with its localized environment
What is The Chicago School?
A study of social change and disorganization
They viewed cities having five concentric zones
Each with unique characteristics and populations
What are the five zones of The Chicago School?
1) the loop: retail businesses and light Manufacturing
2) Zone in transition: recent immigrant groups, deteriorated buildings, ghetto
3) Zone of working-class homes: 2nd immigrant settlement
4) residential zones: middle class citizens with single family homes
5) commuter zones: the suburbs
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