SOC205H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Enrico Ferri, Baby Mama, Italian Unification
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They tried to mimic hard sciences and apply it to social sciences they are willing to move beyond books and rather go out in the world and get cold hard data. They have an emphasis on observation and measurement in their time. They were hugely influenced by darwinism and evolutionary theory and had an emphasis of typology (identifying different types of things). We were on the ascendancy, overlooked the dark ages and felt like life was getting better and we were becoming more advanced than others through this theory. This theory encouraged the elevation of western white states and made them superior to others. This theory continues to influence criminology today. He was very committed to risorgimento and this heavily influenced his study which was to address and fix big social problems like poverty for example. He used the scientific method and tried to find a scientific explanation and solution to these problems.
