Sociological Theory and Social Control

Janowitz, Morris

doi:10.1086/226035

Cited by 341 publications

(112 citation statements)

References 30 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Building on Janowitz's (1975) conception of social control requires that we explicitly note the assumption of relative consensus; namely, one of the most central of common goals is the desire of community residents to live in safe environments free of predatory crime and disorder. There is no evidence of which we are aware showing public approval of crime or disorder by any population group (Kornhauser 1978;Hearn 1997); if anything, the evidence suggests that residents of low-income, AfricanAmerican, and high-crime neighborhoods are the most insistent on better police protection and demands for reducing violence (Skogan and Hartnett 1998).…”

Section: Structural Constraints and The Agency Of Social Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods

Sampson

Raudenbush

1999

American Journal of Sociology

1,943

1,656

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article assesses the sources and consequences of public disorder. Based on the videotaping and systematic rating of more than 23,000 street segments in Chicago, highly reliable scales of social and physical disorder for 196 neighborhoods are constructed. Census data, police records, and an independent survey of more than 3,500 residents are then integrated to test a theory of collective efficacy and structural constraints. Defined as cohesion among residents combined with shared expectations for the social control of public space, collective efficacy explains lower rates of crime and observed disorder after controlling neighborhood structural characteristics. Collective efficacy is also linked to lower rates of violent crime after accounting for disorder and the reciprocal effects of violence. Contrary to the "broken windows" theory, however, the relationship between public disorder and crime is spurious except perhaps for robbery.The answer to the question of how city life was to be possible, then, is this. Visual signs of social and physical disorder in public spaces reflect powerfully on our inferences about urban communities. By social disorder, we refer to behavior usually involving strangers and considered threatening, 1 We thank Tony Earls, Albert J. Reiss Jr., Steve Buka, Jeffrey Morenoff, Richard Congdon, and Matheos Yosef for their help in this project, and the NORC team led by Woody Carter, Cindy Veldman, Jody Dougherty, and Ron Boyd for heroic efforts in data collection. John Laub and the AJS reviewers provided helpful comments on an earlier draft. The long-standing interest of Albert J. Reiss, Jr., in systematic social

show abstract

Section: Structural Constraints and The Agency Of Social Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods

Sampson

Raudenbush

1999

American Journal of Sociology

1,943

1,656

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Social control can be conceived as influence derived from interaction and mutual relations among social groups ( Janowitz 1975). The degree of normative social control available to managers in a CHP is associated with the degree of membership commitment to the organization.…”

Section: Coordination and Integration Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Governance and Management of Effective Community Health Partnerships: A Typology for Research, Policy, and Practice

2000

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Community health partnerships (CHPs) are voluntary collaborations of diverse community organizations that have joined forces in order to pursue a shared interest in improving community health. Although these cross‐sectoral collaborations represent a way to address social determinants of health and disease in society, they suffer from governance and management problems associated with interorganizational relationships in general and health care challenges specifically. A typology of effective governance and management characteristics provides a systematic, theoretically based way of addressing dimensions of governance and management and serves as a guide in constructing, maintaining, and measuring successful partnerships. It offers a multidisciplinary perspective for classifying important organizational issues, identifying barriers to successful development and sustainability, and facilitating the attainment of goals.

show abstract

“…Una noción relacional de comunidad donde los procesos de control social son entendidos, más que como una forma de represión o conformidad, como la capacidad de un colectivo para gestionar la heterogeneidad individual de intereses, valores y objetivos, creando no sólo unidad a partir de la diversidad (Erickson, 1988), sino también su organización efectiva en la busca de objetivos comunes en beneficio mutuo (Janowitz, 1975;Kasarda y Janowitz, 1974). Lo importante, como apuntaba Wellman (1979), es determinar la existencia de las redes que generan pertenencia, evitando asumir su organización local espacialmente determinada, para así poder contemplar las nuevas posibilidades que se han generado en el último siglo (p. 1202-1203).…”

Section: Un Modelo Analítico Basado En La Teoría Del Capital Social Punclassified

La generación de capital social en el sistema educativo no universitario: un análisis del desarrollo comunitario de las escuelas de Cataluña

Meneses¹,

Mominó²

2008

PapRevSoc

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

ResumenLa presente investigación tiene como objetivo el estudio de los fenómenos comunitarios en el contexto del sistema educativo no universitario de Cataluña. Para ello, tras revisar los resultados de algunas aproximaciones realizadas anteriormente, se presenta un modelo de análisis basado en la teoría del capital social. De acuerdo con la distinción fundamental entre el capital social vinculante y aquél que tiende puentes, así como con la consideración de los diferentes ámbitos de actividad cotidiana de las escuelas (el aula y la escuela como contextos, así como sus respectivas relaciones con la comunidad local), se presentan los resultados obtenidos a partir de una muestra representativa de centros de educación primaria y secundaria de Cataluña. Para concluir, se discute la necesidad de considerar al propio desarrollo comunitario en el contexto escolar, no como un instrumento, sino como un fin en sí mismo. Palabras clave: escuela, desarrollo comunitario, capital social, actividad cotidiana, participación, colaboración, calidad en la educación, eficacia escolar. Abstract. Social capital building in the non-university education system: a community development analysis in Catalonian schoolsThe present research intends to study the community phenomena in the context of the non-university, Catalonian education system. Therefore, once the results of certain previous approximations have been revised, we present an analysis model based on the social capital theory. Together with the fundamental distinction between bonding and bridging social capital, and with the relevance of the varied circumstances of everyday life in schools (the classroom and the school contexts, and their respective connections to the local community), we present results from a representative sample of primary and secondary education centers from Catalonia (Spain). To conclude, we discuss the necessity to consider the community building in the schools not as an instrument, but as an end itself.

show abstract

Sociological Theory and Social Control

Cited by 341 publications

References 30 publications

Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods

Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods

The Governance and Management of Effective Community Health Partnerships: A Typology for Research, Policy, and Practice

La generación de capital social en el sistema educativo no universitario: un análisis del desarrollo comunitario de las escuelas de Cataluña

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About