SOC205H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Left Realism, Proletariat, Marxist Philosophy
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Marxist criminology and critical theories of crime and the state. When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. Positivist: focus on what causes crime, focus on individual factors rooted in biological, psychological or social explanations, assume society is based on consensus, assumes social scientific work is value-neutral. You"ve noticed a trend in your culture that voting is low among poor and young people. Older, richer people are still voting regularly, but people who are not part of the upper class and/or older generation are voting less and less as the years pass. You want to know why this is happening. As a positivist sociologist, you might look for an external force that causes this to happen. Let"s say that education is your hypothesized cause of lower voting among certain parts of society.
