SOCY 275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Physiognomy, Atavism, Cesare Beccaria

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

Document Summary

Sociologist typically look at deviance from an upper class perspective, and they tend to neglect the types of deviance that occur in more white collar areas of society. Why so we only study lower class people is because we generally label people, and it is only the powerless that get labeled, and therefore lead to us looking at a specific group of people. The attempt to label people, as deviant in this society is essentially useless, because we have the ability to change this definition and perception. Objectives are to discuss the historical origins of contemporary theoretical accounts of deviant behaviour. To distinguish the two broad explanatory approaches to deviant behaviour the classical school and the positivist school. Lombrosies way of thinking of the problem, continues to be extremely influential. To demonstrate how earlier explanation of deviant behaviour continue to influence modern though on subject.