SOC 409 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Domestic Violence, Intermittent Explosive Disorder, Differential Association
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Theory: developed to provide a general framework for understanding social phenomena and making predictions. Lester fran ward: father of american sociology, spent his time examining issues related to evolutionary processes and eugenics. Early: concerned about issues such as charities and correction, labor problems, statistics, social reform, social control, personality and social adjustment, and urban and rural sociology, interested in putting forth the perspective that sociology was real science. Great depression: when the family became a central issue in american sociology, black tuesday, october 29, 1929. Social and psychological theories are often critiqued for being imprecise for not being able to explain every variation of a phenomenon. Grand theories: developed in order to explain all of the vastness of human behavior, each is built on the assumption that all types of human behavior are organized around several key principles. Its tenets, were they to be applied, are consistent with the patterns present in the majority of violence in families: weakness:
