CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Forces, Class Conflict, Social Fact
9 Mar 2016
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Good theories logically constructed: logically sound and internally consistent. Classical school sickness, pathology, inferiority violation of social contract bad genes/ defects: within us free will and hedonism remedied by treatment, elimination deterrence. Social defense theory: society had the right to protect itself. Relativism: deviant/ criminal is absolutely real, unlike law-abiding citizen, a crime remain to be crime over time is a label/ social construct. Subjective: deviance/ crime is observably objective and can be studied as such, lombroso: forehead shape is a subjective experience. 1: other may see one as criminal vs one does not. 1. is determined outside the person"s control is a voluntary, free-willed act. 1: can choose to recognise law if want to. Society as a functional organism rooted in social conflict. Norms/ expectations based on shared values/ interests moral order not shared, but imposed on us unbalance share of money/ power. Marx: widely cited political philosopher in social sciences.
