Sociology 2267A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: B. F. Skinner, Twin, Twin Study
26 Oct 2016
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Soc 2267- chapter 5- explaining crime and delinquency: in the beginning introduction. Over last 100 years perspectives of what cause crime have ranged from biological and physiological to the psychological and sociological . some views scienti c and others are referred to as taken for granted understandings. Taken for granted understandings: beliefs that are accepted as true simply because they are either felt to be true or are commonly shared as being true. they are based on immediate experience and rarely examined. Post modernists: those who reject or challenge all that has been considered to be modern scientific method: positivism and criminology. Comte was the rst to say we could understand society best by applying the scienti c method to its study. Positivist: philosophical, theoretical, and methodological perspective positing that only that which is observable through the scienti c method is knowable.
