SOC 1500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Sociality, Gender Analysis, Sociobiology

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

Document Summary

Criminal behaviour was understood to be caused by demons, evil spirits, or by forces of evil. Trepanation-holes drilled into skull-were performed to release demons and allow person back to a normal state. Document considered to provide the foundation of constitutional law. It was drawn up by his nobles and signed by english king john in 1215. It guaranteed traditional land rights to the barons, certain guarantees under the law to freeman, and the protection of religious rights and local customs. Social contract: thomas hobbe"s view on the development of social behaviour, expressed in his book leviathan (1651), described a natural state of humanity where life in a pre-social state of nature was nasty, brutish, and short . He thought that fear of violent death forces human beings into a social contract with each other that leads to the formation of the state. Human capacity for rational thinking informed the writings of englishman jeremy.