250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Medicalization, Dont, The Bell Curve
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October test part i fill in the blank, part ii essay question. Level/effect: alcoholism/drug addiction these people are sick and need help. Rational deviance moved towards explaining deviance by science. Medicine sees these people as sick (e. g. vancouver needle exchange) Positivism utilize natural methods, not necessarily good because humans are rational/irrational. We don"t punish, we treat social contact coded in law deviance criminal matter deviance not criminal, it"s a pathology positivism doesn"t recognize human beings emotional state. Law can describe anything, including human nature this is. Language: use words like power, economic structures. Herman spencer took idea of survival of the fittest and applied it to humans. Fitness not only commodity but indication of social constructed moral value symbol of health, desire, status and power. Problematic to sociology findings applied in problematic ways. Iq inherited, iq linked to deviance, iq genetic. No such thing as race socially constructed.
