SOC 3710 Lecture Notes - Structural Functionalism, Meritocracy, Environmental Criminology
14 Jul 2014
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Pre- sociological: time period that goes back to when youth were not understood as being a separate category, don"t apply to youth per se, two broad categories, earliest =classical school (cid:224) linked to bentham and beccaria. Time period of europe where youth were not understood to be a separate category. They had childhood and they had adulthood. Understood crime as a rational response to the world. People commit crime because they the weight the costs and benefits of engaging in deviant acts. 10-12 years and under were not seen as accountable. Didn"t change until the early 20th century. Emile durkheim: thinking about society in general. Chicago school: first areas of sociological analysis that began looking at youth. Anomie: based on the work of robert merton, anomie = normlessness. Looking at models of natural science and applying them to the social sciences.
