PSYC 164 Lecture 7: Katz & Cultural Criminology
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Discussion #4: describe your favorite example of crimesploitation and why you like it. Terms: determinism: for everything that happens there are conditions such that, given those conditions, nothing else could happen, ontology: the nature of reality, primordial: prehistoric, in the sense that history is socially constructed. Primordial good" means a value that precedes anything else. 1: something perceived to be universal and beyond critique. It"s like falling asleep you can"t will it to happen and you can"t stop it from happening. It"s inevitable to human nature: by experiencing himself as an object controlled by transcendental forces, a person can genuinely experience a new or different world, transcendental is just a feeling of transcending out of your normal everyday life. It"s like a feeling of god, etc. that takes you away from your life. Righteous slaughter: homicide is not always murder. I"ll kick your eyes out! : attacking the source of the offense (eyes)
