SOC 2760 Lecture 5: 2760unit5

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2760
• Professor: Robert Shearer

Document Summary

Means: society in which we are born, raised and live as an adult significantly. Our likelihood of homicidal behaviour is also shaped by society and the. Therefore sociological explanations often look to factors outside of the. We all have the capacity to kill in a particular set of circumstances would be shaped by our past and current social relationships, interactions and changing environment. Understanding why homicides occur sociological perspectives, part 2. Easy to imagine that our relative capacity or likelihood to take someone(cid:495)s life. Barkan (cid:523)(cid:884)(cid:882)(cid:883)4(cid:524) argues that, (cid:498)people are social beings more than mere individuals(cid:499) (p. 3) shapes the way our behaviour, attitudes, beliefs, and future life outcomes social structures that determined who we had/have relationships with individual to explain homicide. Brookeman: fall under sociological explanation of homicide including structural, cultural and interactional perspectives. Explaining homicide is not only about understanding the perpetrator (including biological, psychological and sociological) but also about understanding the victim.