SOCI 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Michel Foucault, Public Health, Inductive Reasoning
27 Dec 2017
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Stanley milgram - 1960s - asked these questions inspired by war criminals who were on trial for holocaust atrocities. Normal feature of the human mind to follow authority figures and be obedient. How does power authority and experience shape actions and attitudes (video games) Refusal to take (cid:396)espo(cid:374)si(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) afte(cid:396) the fa(cid:272)t autho(cid:396)it(cid:455) (cid:373)aki(cid:374)g the de(cid:272)isio(cid:374)s. Development of the knowledge around labelling theory consequences -- discipline of sociology evolves in 1600s. Types of research -- understand how concept of deviance emerges, how it"s used and its ideology in social sciences, ground theories that could be used to predict and explain society. Concept of deviance is connected to seen as consolidating all theoretical schools. Rule breaking behaviors share something in common = deviance. Deviance is the single flag around which theoretical and sociological traditions could rally them. Theoretical assumptions used w/n the deviance literature degeneracy etc. and instead placed in single coherent concept.
