SOCI 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fundamental Justice, Émile Durkheim, Far-Left Politics
12 Jan 2018
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Understanding deviance is based in understanding the major themes that are the foundation of crime and deviance. Deviance theories of the past continue to circulate today. Many ideas of how to control social problems are derived from these theories on deviance. Social psychology is used because after wwii, social psychologists started to examine concepts such as obedience to authority. Social psychologists help us understand how people commit deviant acts in a social context (milgram experiment) The sociology of crime and deviance is not a unified body of thought, although many sociologists thought that the sociology would unite sociologists as a whole. Sociological theories are generally influenced by prevailing political atmospheres and social issues that existed at the time. These theories were created to solve the social problems that were dominant at the time. All major theoretical ideas stem from three sources. Marx- associated with radical left politics: communism, socialism.
