SOCY 275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Physiognomy, Kingsley Davis, Anomie

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 275
• Professor: Stephen Baron

Document Summary

Deviance refers to a broader concept of deviance more than the people. Naturalism any set of beliefs that are not rooted in another worldly understanding. The state has the right minimally intervene when it has too. Atavism a condition, a characteristic of people that explains why criminals do what they do; sometimes people are born out of sync with the time, criminals are a throwback and have less civilized minds. According to lombroso women are less atavistic. Physiognomy a kind of scholarly discipline for studying peoples character by reading it in their faces. Proceeds lombroso, it influenced him to understand the misbehaviour of people. And physiognomy was a stepping stone in his studies. Schools: a group of thinkers that share a set of shared thoughts of the world. Classical school free will, 18th century origins. Classical legacy what did the school of thought leave for the rest of the world to benefit from.