Social Disorganization Explaining Deviance Social

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Social Disorganization

• Explaining Deviance

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Social Disorganization Perspective

• The perspective views society as a complex
  dynamic social system whose parts are
  coordinated.
• Change in one part of the system, requires
  adjustment in other parts.
• Social disorganization refers to lack of
  adjustment or poor adjustment between the parts.

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A Definition

• Social disorganization is conceived of a failure
  of rules.
• There are three types of disorganization
• Normlessness
• Culture Conflict
• Breakdown

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Types of Social Disorganization

• Normlessness no rules exist on how to act.
• Culture Conflict at least two opposing sets of
  rules exist on how to act. Acting on one set may
  violate other expectations.
• Breakdown is a violation on this same theme.
  Rules exist, but conformity fails to produce
  promised rewards or yields punishment instead.

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Causes of Social Disorder

• Social change broadly speaking is the cause of
  social disorder.
• Change causes the components of the social system
  to get out of tune with each other.
• Technical, demographic or cultural changes are
  the immediate conditions of social change.

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Consequences of Social Change

• From Personal Perspective
• Personal Stress resulting in
• Personal disorganization mental illness,
  alcoholism
• From Organizational Perspective
• Change in the system
• Continues to function as is
• System breakdowns

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Solutions

• Define problem
• Parts of the system that are out of order can be
  brought back into equilibrium.

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Differences between

• Social Disorganization
• Studied problems by examining rules
• Used their own language and conceptualization
• Focused on scientific theory and methods
• Focused on the acquisition of knowledge rather
  than solutions

• Social Pathology
• Failings of Individuals Institution
• Used language from other sciences
• More philosophical than scientific
• Wanted to apply discoveries to social problems