Exam 6: Social Structure Theories

Cohesion among neighborhood residents (community cohesion)combined with shared expectations for informal social control of public space promotes:

What are the three branches of social structure theory?

General strain theory is a micro-level theory.Explain the multiple sources of stress contained within this view and how general strain is associated with criminality.

What is social disorganization and how does social disorganization develop?

This occurs when the rules expressed in the criminal law clash with the demands of group conduct norms.

In neighborhoods with high levels of collective efficacy,children are less likely to become involved with deviant peers and to engage in deviant behavior.Rather,kids use their wits to avoid violent confrontations and to feel safe.Doing this is a concept referred to as:

Organic solidarity is a postindustrial social system that is highly developed and dependent upon the division of labor,and in which people are connected by their interdependent needs for one another's services and production.

According to focal concern theory,which of the following is not identified as a lower class focal concern?

According to Robert Agnew,______________states that individuals who feel stress and strain are more likely to commit crimes

A renewal stage in which obsolete housing is replaced and upgraded is known as:

The wealth concentration effect is unique to the United States.

Discuss Merton's version of strain theory and its social adaptations.

A weakness of Shaw and McKay's research was their reliance on official police records to calculate neighborhood crimes rates.

According to Sellin,culture conflict occurs when the rules expressed in criminal law clash with the demands of group conduct norms.

According to institutional anomie theory,the economy dominates all other social institutions,such as family and school.What statement is false with regard to how the economy undermines the other social institutions?

According to Durkheim,______________ occurs in a society in which rules of behavior have broken down or become inoperative during periods of rapid social change or social crisis,such as war or famine.

Discuss the cycles of community change and how they impact collective efficacy.

Social ecologists know that people who report living in neighborhoods with high levels of crime and civil disorder become suspicious and mistrusting.Some residents become so suspicious that they develop a(n)___________ in which the outside world is considered the enemy out to destroy their neighborhood.

Poverty-ridden neighborhoods which suffer high rates of population turnover and are incapable of inducing residents to remain are known as:

Identify the community-level factors that are associated with fear and describe how these factors contribute to the level of fear in a neighborhood.