COMMUNITY DISORGANIZATION - SOME CRITICAL NOTES Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • In recent years numerous discussions of urban communities have given great weight to themes of disorganization and disorder. This paper critically examines several impoitant conceptual, procedural, and substantive issues inherent in most treatments of community disorganization. To illustrate such fundamental problems as overgeneralization and dominant group bias five specific topicsmigration, disasters, slums, ghettos, and collective violencewere selected for intensive analysis. Copyright 1973, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved

published proceedings

  • SOCIOLOGICAL INQUIRY

author list (cited authors)

  • FEAGIN, J. R.

citation count

  • 6

complete list of authors

  • FEAGIN, JR

publication date

  • July 1973

publisher