SOSC 111 Lecture Notes - Cesare Lombroso, John Bowlby, Sigmund Freud
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Life in the state of nature as nasty, brutish and short , a war of all against all. Cesare lombroso 1870s criminals as biological regressions. 1930s and 40s connection between physique and personality traits. Late 19th century notion of bad blood , criminality in the family, feeble- mindedness . 1960s and discovery of xyy configuration and initial link to violence. Essay on the inequality of the human races (1853-5) joseph de gobinaeu. Samuel huntington and the clash of civilizations (1993) shift from conflict centered on ideology to conflict centered on civilizations. Sigmund freud and the infant in the grip of the pleasure principle . Socialization, the reality principle , and the superego. Failures in socialization might mean a weak superego. Freud and the death instinct to account for socially destructive. John bowlby delinquency linked with maternal deprivation tendencies and mass violence. Psychological approaches that came to stress violence as learned and social behavior subcultures, models, and rewards and punishments.