Essay On Social Disorganization

Social Disorganization Social disorganization was first introduced by sociologist at the University of Chicago and Institute for Juvenile Research in Chicago. Robert Parks and Ernest Burgess (1925), studied the longitudinal affects of Chicago while incorporating a social ecological perspective on the cities. They primarily focused on ways humans compete for scarce and desirable locations as animals do. What Parks and Burgess found were that as central business district zones grew in population, and outward expansion followed. Additionally, the residential properties that were abandon, deteriorated leaving a few residence in a socially disorganized area. Philosophers primary focus, since the introduction of social disorganization theory, …show more content…
Farris defined social disorganization perspective as a destruction of the relationship that hold social organization together. His application to crime led him propose that crime rate is merely a reflection of the degree of disorganization of societies control mechanisms. Disorganization of such conventional mechanisms was especially likely in large, rapidly growing industrial cities where such disorganization permits highly organized criminality as well as less organized forms of group and individual crime and delinquency (Farris, …show more content…
Kubrin and Weitzer, centers their study on how culture and urban political-economic effects the crime level in a neighborhood. Kubrin and Weitzer, suggest more in-depth focus on the measures of social ties. Although collective efficacy provides another nuance when addressing social ties and social control, these variable should not be the only factors explaining neighborhood crime and disorder. Although may scholar are independent focusing on different avenues of Shaw and Mckay theory of social disorganization, the carful attention have focused on concepts of anomie, strain, disorganization as a