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Concentric Zone Theory Holds Both A Conflict And A Consensus Theory

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1.) The historical roots of social ecology theory concluded with the Chicago School is that in Chicago they Saw an increasing number of population within the small time frame and they started to see more crime happening, so they were relating that to the social product of urbanism. To find that information it was done by the Chicago scientists who gathered both statistical and qualitative data.
2.) Social ecology theory holds both a conflict and a consensus theory. It depends where you stand on the definition and your view on it. My personal opinion is that it’s a conflict theory because in the textbook it states that “Individuals make up community and neighborhood units competing with each other for scarce resources” (Pg. 197). After analyzing the quote it became apparent to me that the individuals who make the community and those who make the neighborhood units are in the battle for the haves and have-nots.
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The developers who created this used five concentric zones, each two miles wide to describe the patterns of social development in Chicago. According to the textbook it states that “He argued that city growth was generated by the pressure from the city center to expand outward. Expansion threatened to encroach on the surrounding areas and did so in concentric waves, or circles, with the center being the most intense, having the highest density and highest occupancy. These concentrations become progressively less intense and of lower density with greater distance from the center” (Pg. 198). I think that this could also work in Denver because like in Chicago we are a big city with gaining population and something like this would be interesting to see the research of social

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