SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Enrico Ferri, Wrongfully Accused, Telling Stories
11 Dec 2016
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A way of explaining a particular phenomenon. Concepts are the building blocks of theory point to parts of theory and rationalize it. Hypothesis: variables that differ in their relationships of other variables and is a statement of how they relate. Defining and explaining crime (2 major ways: objectivist (consensus) approach, individual, can look at individual attributes to explain why people commit crime. Can be inherit in the individual (genetics, where they grew up, human behaviour is classified in good or bad: consensus, majority agree of what is right or wrong, causation, answering the why; why are people committing crime. Caused by something and determining what that something is. Can find a solution if you know what the cause is: subjectivist (conflict) approach, label, emphasizing the social construction of crime, power, who has power; they get to define who is wrong/what is crime.
