SOC 3750 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Scout Method, Canadian Police Information Centre, Absenteeism
5 Apr 2014
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Week 1: chapter 1: perspectives on the police (ps)! Governments no longer monopolize the provision of police services to the public! Many groups in society have chosen to protect themselves! Although certain areas choose to protect themselves, the governmental agency will remain. Residual powers that threaten to harm the public/violate the law remain with governmental. Sociology: seem as a way of understanding and explaining historical transformations the nal resort for crime- ghting purposes! police agents! Pure sociology: study and describe society and social behaviour ! Applied sociology: delineate problems that af ict society and test solutions for them ! Study police organizations and personnel for the purpose of understanding how and why they. Sociological imagination: study the in uence that society has on the individual, connect. Theory: set of inter-related propositions that allow for the systemization of knowledge, Hypothesis: tentative statement that suggests how two classes of phenomena may be.
