SOC 1500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3 (pg. 64-68): Scientific Method, Spirit Possession
3 Oct 2016
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Abnormal behaviour > caused by demons, evil spirits or indeterminate fore of all . Trepanation (holes drilled into skull) release spirits (unlikely to survive) Foundation of modern laws & procedures in english law. 1215, british barons forced king john to form the magna carta. Guarentee inder the law to freeman & protected religious rights & customs. 1613, edwad coke (english chief justice) changed to guarentee individual rights & liberties to all british citizens (person could be imprisoned or extradited by britian unless lawfully judged guilty of offence) Enlightenment significant intellectual shift in western european thought & direct impact how crime was understood in society. Age of reason (thomas hobbes 1651, began to write his leviathan) State of nature fear of death forces humans unti social contract to form state. Unatural for people to put themselves under the control of the state, it is rational for people to do so.
