Sociology 2259 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Anthropological Criminology, Social Darwinism, Craniometry
16 Nov 2012
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Positivism: used of methods of the natural sciences scientific (objective) Deviance is pathological it"s an illness. Biological determinism symptoms, born this way. Notion of free will was an excuse: criminal behaviour is an inborn defect, self-directed actor was replaced with a person who"s every action was, searched for these bad genes a result of some dark biological influence. Emerging: criminal anthropology tell someone was bad by how they looked. Physiognomy: study of facial features no chin, caveman-esque. Craniometry: classifying human types by brain size and skull measurements: you know what they say about fellas with big brains they"re. Mental note: you look like an amish diddler get rid of your beard i deviant! think maybe. Mesomorphs tough jocks (tunnel snakes rule we cause crime) Herbert spencer: apply concept of evolution to an understanding of history and societies. Human socities moving from primitive to civilized : this was the survival of the fittest dude, that"s social darwinism.
