SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Travis Hirschi, Randall Collins, Michael R. Gottfredson
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Objective refers to the behavior or condition itself. His work identifies how murder can be understood as a social product. More likely to have problems related to addiction and psychosis: women more likely to have depression or anxiety, crime rates higher in late teens and early adulthood and decline sharply after. Husbands under the age of 30 more likely to beat wives than husbands older: social constructionism: judged from another standpoint, claims making process: the distinctions that people make between deviant and non- deviant behavior. Many behaviors are constructed as medical disorders requiring treatment rather than punishment. 2 types of conflict theory: conservative and radical: conservative conflict theory: social conflicts regarding the moral meaning of conduct emerge from diverse sources. Power is not concentrated in any one sector of the society. Instead, various status groups come into conflict over specific issues: radical conflict theory: draw on marxarian understandings of society.
