CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Age Of Enlightenment, Abstract Interpretation, Human Behavior
25 Jul 2015
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What is deviance: deviance defined behavior outside a normal behavior. Being homosexual, smoking cocaine (these our deviant before). Formal social constraints-prison): social institutions- (eg. the criminal justice system). Largely modern creations designed to constrain those do not follow social convention. Sociology involves a respect for logical clarity in the formulation of theories, and also involves disciplined empirical investigation. Sociology and criminology: sociology and criminology are highly interrelated, many of the ideas in criminology came from the field of sociology, until recently, criminology was a sub-discipline of sociology, and was usually subsumed under the sociology department. Criminology: roots of sociology are much the same as the roots of criminology, both disciplines are quite new. The enlightenment: also known as the age of reason, period from 1689 to 1789 (began with english revolution and ended with the. Intellectual movement involving philosophers, political reformers, social theorists, and religious skeptics.
