SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cesare Beccaria, Sociality, Prison Reform

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

Magna carta: document considered to provide the foundation of constitutional law is called the magna carta, it was drawn up by his nobles and signed by english king john in 1215. It guaranteed traditional land rights to the barons, certain guarantees under the law to freemen and the protection of religious rights and local customs. Social contract: thomas hobbes" view of the development of social behaviour expressed in his. Enlightenment (age of reason): period beginning at the end of the 17th century was so named for the supported rationality of its adherents. Locke"s tabula rasa (blank slate) theory of human learning decided issues of social interaction could be determined through the scientific method rather than by recourse to religious ideas about personality formation.