CRM 3301 Lecture 2: Lecture 2 sep 14

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 3301
• Professor: Jon Frauley

Document Summary

Concepts are tools for thinking theoretically (for conceptualizing) about social phenomena (including crime, ) Theories offer us interconnected sets of concepts that are used to think with and to frame a problem to make it intelligent. Different framings have different implications for how we approach an attempt to resolve a problem. Mt gives you that broader scope to make you realize and those in it look at those observations. We try to synthesize then we have a subculture and we worked from a broader level to a narrow one. Metatheory: the general background of philosophical assumptions that provide rules for the construction of particular theories and justify particular methods (abercrombie et al. in morrow: 1994: 27). It concerns modes of reasoning (epistemology); questions of explanation, truth, reality (ontology); construction and refinement of analytic concepts (working out logical contradictions, problems); evaluation of existing theoretical frameworks; integration and synthesis of existing frameworks.