HREQ 2020 Lecture Notes - Amber Alert, Conspiracy Theory, Collapse Of The World Trade Center

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 2020
• Professor: Claudio Colaguori

Document Summary

The history of ideas on deviance and social control in the era when there was not a human rights concern. Events that happened in the past still have relevance today. Early theories of crime and deviance: keep in mind that each particular period in history has different paradigms of thought (dominant world view or a model) before einstein work was based on newton for example. As knowledge in a field develops one paradigm replaces another. Paradigms that have an affect on the way society is governed. The paradigm we rely on is very important. Dominant world view-tied to those with power. Paradigm must be approved by those in power: 5% control everything and 90% do not control the wealth and resources the use of force. Those in power want to maintain their power by controlling the way society thinks instead of.