SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Anomie, Correlation Does Not Imply Causation, Microsoft Powerpoint
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How would sociologists study the 4 families : use random sample to represent population (easy to create anything you want if 3 or 4 families, measure & quantify variables. Confirm the obvious: what everyone knows, common scence. A basic argument for prohibition in us: will lower crime rates. American murder data shows: prohibition of alcohol from 1920 to 1933, murder rate actually rose. Spawns organized crime: unintended consequence, passing laws sometimes raise organized crime. Data are socially constructed (have to be collected, need sample, etc ) May not measure what it is supposed to measure. Rise due to: social changes in society, changes in recording death certificates!! Charges dropped very little with :soliciting law . Supreme court narrowly interprets soliciting in 1983 (charge rate dropped) 1985 bill c-49 makes much easier to prosecute and prostitution charges skyrocket (aids was discovered 1980 so not possible that more prostitutes) Doesn"t tell you anything about prostitution just about charges laid by police.
