SOC 3710 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Urban Sociology, Autonomic Nervous System, Subculture
31 Oct 2016
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Soc 3710 chapter 5: explaining crime and delinquency: in the beginning. Postmodernists those who reject or challenge all that has been considered to be modern. Theory an integrated set of propositions that offers explanations for some phenomenon. Auguste comte was among the first to argue that society could best be understood by applying the scientific method to its study. Positivist an 18t century philosophical, theoretical, and methodological perspective positing that only that which is observable through the scientific method is knowable. Three conditions have to be met before causality can be established: has to be established that there is a relationship between concepts both within and among the propositions that constitute a theory. Concepts a general or abstract term that refers to a class or group of more specific terms: a time priority has to be established between these concepts. The cause has to come before the effect. Fundamental assumption is that the universe is (cid:498)knowable(cid:499) in an objective.
