SOC 2760 Study Guide - Final Guide: Prolicide, Subculture, Parachuting

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2760
• Professor: Rob Shearer

Document Summary

What murder says about the society it exists in. Murder is becoming a valid course of study in academia. Homicide as the backbone of history, war is legitimate homicide. Only recently have scholars began to look at what homicide reveals about society. Halttunen looks at gothic homicide narrative as representation of shift in values, from puritan values where murderer is sinner reflecting community of sinners, to secular values where murder is monster separate from society. Murder originally popular with criminologists and sociologists two developments made murder appealing to historians and other scholars: development of new social history in 70s which argued for depictions of typically marginalized groups & renewed respect for narrative. Monkkonen (part of homicide research working group) studies 200 years worth of homicide in. Nyc sees homicide rates as reflecting social, economic, and technological factors. Murder has always sold ie 1680s ministers used murder cases to distribute sermons.