SOC 2760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cesare Lombroso, Physiognomy, Peer Pressure

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2760
• Professor: Reza Barmaki

Document Summary

Called physiognomy: possible to look at someone and determine their moral traits. Can determine if they"re (cid:498)good(cid:499) or (cid:498)bad(cid:499) Positivism - a branch of social science that sees behaviours as a product of. Born criminal theories: natural sources, inborn (not free will, physical traits, identify criminals crime. Learning period may be dangerous to survival learning to hunt/swim/fly reproduce with, eating as a baby) may get you killed: not learned. Atavism violent behaviour: created by cesare lombroso, violence resurfaces = this explains violence and violent, during evolutionary time, certain characteristics mother nature, once in a while, mother nature brings back these old traits (ancestral. Body covered in hair, tails, skull anomalies, smaller brains: latin for (cid:498)ancestors(cid:499) unselects they go away and are replaced with new traits throwbacks) created by chance. Criminals criminals have certain traits and are born criminals activity ape-like skulls shows that the person has a smaller brain/prone to more violent/unintelligent/hasn"t evolved properly.