SOC224 Lecture Notes - Loch Ness Monster, Sodium Bicarbonate
25 Apr 2013
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Jan 22 deviance week 1 and methodologies. Read chapter 1, 2, 13, 14, 3, and 6. From where does our information about crime come: when we get information from a trusted source, such as a trustworthy friend, we spread it like gossip. If guys and girls make out in cars at lovers point, they will be killed by the hook guy. If we learn about crime by talking to neighbors we learn about victims whose experience cannot be easily dismissed because they are nameless or faceless or live somewhere else. Just because 2 things are related, doesn"t mean that one causes the other or they are linked in any way: when we see things that are similar, we often extrapolate from one to the other, ex. It is direct and not affected by intervening factors (ex. We need to account for these intervening factors.
