SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: National Dairy Development Board, Enrico Ferri, Homicide
5 Dec 2016
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Concepts: considered building blocks of theory, help to point us to a particular part of our theory, aspects of reality trying to explain. Variables (sociology): those that are concepts that vary, predictor or explanatory, help predict particular outcome or response, not looking at cause, outcome is the presumed affect in that not experimental study. Young males are more likely to commit crime than any other age or sex category. Through the individual, something makes them commit crime: explained through genetics, dna (bio, neighborhood grown up in (soc) Assumption: we have right and wrong (right and good, wrong and bad or criminal) Assumption and consensus among us about what the right and wrong behaviours are, that(cid:495)s why some are crimes a better way to come up with solution to stop it. Causation: identify the cause of someone committing a crime, there might be. Tend to all have characteristics in common; looking at it through social construct as a label.
