CRM 2303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Verstehen, Influence Of Mass Media, Prezi

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2303
• Professor: Jeffrey Monaghan

Document Summary

It is unlikely that criminologists are ever going to agree about why people commit (cid:272)ri(cid:373)e(cid:863: media influence, government funding or funding in general. Internal: approaches to data and knowledge, selection of research methods. Values and politics as shapers of criminological research: get points from prezi, page 38 and 36-37. Internal approaches to data and knowledge: epistemology and ontology, epistemology, a field of study that examines sources of knowledge. On one hand is positivism, the perspective that social reality is something that operates separately from social actors. Intended to be predictive: critiques of positivism, more ideal than real. Impossible or any research to be completely objective and value- free. Incompatible with subjective experience: categories used for positivist studies are always human. Interpretivism constructions: stresses the difference between the natural and social worlds and claims that it is people who make sense of the latter, fussey and crowther-dowey quote page 41. Is the (cid:862)(cid:271)est a(cid:448)aila(cid:271)le approximation to the truth(cid:863) a(cid:272)(cid:272)ordi(cid:374)g to.