CRM 2301 Lecture 1: positivist class notes

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2301
• Professor: Christine Gervais

Document Summary

Office hours: fss 2015-p2; fridays: 11:45am-12:45: not every friday. Need for theory: sometimes common sense aren"t the most effective responsive. Theory construction: social situation/phenomenon identifying a particular issue, a problem in society, circumstances that haven"t come to attention of the public but are still imp try to make sense to the issue and response efficiently and effectively. Try to develop a certain set of concepts that are relevant in order to try and describe reality. Concepts that may be related to our topic. Assumption of the relation between the concept and the issue. Could also be a question, what"s the question that the theory is asking. 1. explanation, what reality have the theorist come up with. * responsibility on the theorist on what they can offer on these theories: each theory you can go back to this model to use it as a template to have a consistent understanding across all of them.