SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Xyy Syndrome, Brain Size, Methamphetamine
3 May 2018
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Note Set 17 11/17/2017
Traditional Theories of Inequality
- Rooted in biology Determination Why?
- Explaatios of oth sides ou’s Razor= the simplest solution is often the best &
correct answer.
1. Biology definition= We can explain one sociological event into a single/ 1 reason
which is Biology.
- KISS it= Keep It Simple Stupid
- 3 critiques of science
1. Too Reductionistic = they are trying to reduce a complicated problem to one
single factor.
2. Flawed Hypothesis
3. Biased Sampling= They want sample to be representative of entire population.
- Case Study:
1. Diet Coke + Meth Oral Hygiene is actually the cause
▪ Sample had 1 person drink 24 cans of diet coke a day, and 2 meth users.
- Other case studies
1. Lambroso: Brain size- Larger brains are more evolved thus richer/ wealthy, and
smaller brains are less evolved thus poorer/ criminals.
2. Sheldon: Somatypes-
3. Goddard: Devian Families-
4. XYY Theory of Crime-
5. Today: Genetics
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Document Summary
Expla(cid:374)atio(cid:374)s of (cid:271)oth sides o(cid:272)(cid:272)u(cid:373)"s razor= the simplest solution is often the best & correct answer: biology definition= we can explain one sociological event into a single/ 1 reason which is biology. 3 critiques of science: too reductionistic = they are trying to reduce a complicated problem to one single factor, flawed hypothesis, biased sampling= they want sample to be representative of entire population. Case study: diet coke + meth oral hygiene is actually the cause, sample had 1 person drink 24 cans of diet coke a day, and 2 meth users.
