SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Émile Durkheim, Chromosome

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

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President lin(cid:272)oln"s murder: 4 people were executed very quickly, they went to trial, they had the hanging behind a fort to kick the public out, only soldiers could see. 19th century hangings: done indoors, more solemn occasion, conducted in prisons. Modern execution: today we use lethal injections, the person in the room is the person being executed, only a certain number of people can watch. Mp: it used to (cid:271)e a pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) (cid:448)ie(cid:449)ing, no(cid:449) it"s a (cid:448)ery pri(cid:448)ate e(cid:448)ent. Emile durkheim: very important for society to draw a boundary, every society needs a certain amount of crime to ceremonially demonstrate social integration, punishing someone who broke the rules. Mp: deviant to necessary to reaffirm to the society what we believe. The beggar"s opera: 18th century english play. What causes deviance: mental illness, extra y chromosome, the neighborhood you grew up in.