SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Selfishness, Eugenics
5 Dec 2012
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Demonic perspective: someone committed a crime because they were compelled to do so through supernatural forces or tempted by possessed person. Witch craze: women were targeted women who had lives outside of the norm. Modern witch hunts: a specific group being targeted as being bad or negative. A need to be controlled: cold war. Seek pleasure and avoid pain and any kind of harm. We can calculate the risk of our behavior: if i engage in this behavior, what kind of pain will result in that. Anything we choose to do, we want to do. We want social order more than we are interested in our social pleasures. We should only act in ways that bring about the greater good in the greater number of people. Profit: people shouldn t benefit from committing crimes. Calculations: how one calculates the risks and benefits will be different than someone else. Characteristics: people will differ in how they essential see gratification.
