SOCY 275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Twin, Twin Study, Chromosome

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

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People who are heavier, round, small bones and limbs, smooth skin. Happy go luck people, confortable, extroverts, enjoy luxury: body type: mesomorphic. More likely to engage in crime: body type: ectomorphic. Rise to your skin and nervous system. Lean, fragile, delicate bones and limbs, small faces, little body mass. They would look at a picture and give you a number on scale on. Issues that might emerge from this theory: kids body shape change over time as they age. Identical twins raised in different environments have different iq. Biological factors: crime as a hereditary, defect: Injury as a child: twin studies (lange and christiansen) If one of the twins were involved in crime, the other twin would be involved in crime as well. Identical twins are treated the same might be a factor for them being the same. Fraternal twins same genetic as another sibling.