Social order and change

Communities and Social Change

UNDER the Chairmanship of Mr. Kenneth Robinson, M.P., a whole session of the Fifth British National Conference on Social Welfare?held in London at the beginning of January 1964?was devoted to consideration of "Community Care". The groups selected as needing such care were "The Mentally Disordered"; "The Physically Handicapped"; "The Delinquent"; and "Children out of their own homes". (Preparato...

Health and social change

Gangs and social change

Extant literature on the subject has usually defined gangs as loose associations of individuals engaged in some type of delinquent or criminal activity. Yet researchers have failed to sociologically differentiate gangs from other types of collective behavior. In contrast, this article understands gangs as organizations influenced by the social structure of the urban areas in which they operate....

Change and Social Organization

Organizations continually adapt to external organizational imperatives such as technology, population, knowledge and values. The increasing rate and intensity of these imperatives necessitates fhanges in services irrespective of the organization's formal intentions to change. It is suggested that organizational characteristics amenable to handling change do not occur randomly. Six organizationa...

Protection and Social Order

Consider a simple world populated with two types of individuals, those who work and create wealth (peasants) and those who steal the property of others (bandits). With bandits about, peasants need to protect their output and can do so individually or collectively. But either way protection is costly; it consumes resources and interferes with an individual’s ability to create wealth. This study ...