Social Disorganization

Running head : SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION Social Disorganization

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Social disorganization

Social disorganization can be defined as failure or break down or schools , churches policing and local governments , networking , and families in a community . The absence of such common communal structures has been found to be detrimental to the well being of the society Social institutions or organizations have been known all over the years to encourage relationships of togetherness between the members of a given community

Social exists in a community

of people when there is a defined coordinated relationship between its members . In such communities , members are involved in all the community based activities that the representatives of the community organize . The representatives include heads of families , religious leaders , school headmasters , local leaders . The level of involvement in the community activities is same to all members of that community . So social did organization can be termed as the absence of control from traditional institution on a community of people (Harries , K . 1980

Social disorganization was first introduced by the department of sociology in the University of Chicago to explain the nature of delinquency , crime and other social problems in the rising population of Chicago in early 1900s . Urbanization in Chicago at that time saw the rise in the level of crime and other social evils in the communities With the rising population of immigrants from different races and different cultural backgrounds , the pre-existing social rules...