SOC 1500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Reality Principle, Steven Pinker, Scientific Method

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

The demonic era: before 1600s all criminal behavior attributed to demons, eradicate by cranial surgery (trepanation holes drilled in the skull) John locke: believed that natural human condition at birth was like a blank slate where social interation and human experiences shaped the person, nuture not nature. Catholic church exorcism: enlightenment had profound effect on 18th century thinking about crime and criminality, free will and rational thought was seen as the basic building blocks of human activity and social organization. Idaeas of jury selection resonate today (argued that fair juries should be made of equal combinations of those who knoew the victim and those who knew the accused. Judges shold not have the power to exercise compelte discretion in: believed that punishment could serve as individual deterrence sentences (sentences should be equal to crime determinant sentencing) Limbrosian: blacks are more prone to crime, less intelligent and athletic while.