SOC205H5 Lecture Notes - Crime Prevention, Y Chromosome, Genetic Testing
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What is theory a way of looking at the world, a way of understanding the social world, a way of understanding; in crime, a way of understanding crime. Foucault looks at how do we regulate behavior. Feminists try to understand the gender differences and why different theories apply differently to males and females. Theory is tested by peoples common sense ideas of the world. We are seeing a decline of the expert. Retrieval going back to what was known or already known and trying to. Translation taking others previous work and using them. Reinterpretation - taking an intellectual priorities and applying them in ways they weren"t used before. Changing intellectual priorities when a theory is validated. Changing social conditions new social facts, different realities of living in 2012 vs. that of 1950. Developments in cognate fields of injury new social facts, different realities of living in.
