Discuss the theoretical origins of social disorganization theory

What will be an ideal response?


Answer:
• Early theorists were concerned with issues of their own time such as shift in population from rural to urban areas.
• Interest in learning the good or bad that followed these significant changes.
• Central focus to observe shifts in population and changes was in the city of Chicago.
• Professors Robert Park and Ernest Burgess drew from their knowledge of human ecology to examine changes occurring in Chicago.
• Park & Burgess explored how human communities changed over years and developed a five-zone model of an urban area.

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What will be an ideal response?

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