Sociology 2267A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5-2267: Eugenics, Y Chromosome, C. Robert Cloninger
7 Mar 2014
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Anderson(1996) describes some understands for crime taken for granted understandings . Beliefs that are accepted as true simply because they are either felt to be true or commonly shared as being true. Post-modernist: those who reject or challenge all that has been considered to be modern. Western theory, art, philosophy, and knowledge developed in the 19th & 20th century. Claim that scientific knowledge has no more claim to truth than taken-for-granted understandings. Theory: integrated sets of proposition that offer explanation for some phenomenon. Research: a systematic process of information gathering analysis, & reporting of findings. Empirical: an adjective describing knowledge that is based on observation, experience, or experiment rather than on theory or philosophy. In a scientific sense, a fact is something that has been established through a process. 19th century theorizing about crime & delinquency prior to 19th century religion dominant force were used to understand and explain events and behaviours.
