Sociology 2266A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Prison Farm, Standard Deviation, Social Order
26 Jan 2018
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Intervention of medicine (physicians: reaction to classicism, simplicity sake-italian school, three key figures (ceaser lombroso, enrico ferri, raffaele garofalo) Caveats: (a warning: all white males, all members of aristocracy or ruling elites, european perspective-excludes aboriginals, africans, asia and southeast. Positivism: general-world can be measured, empirically, phenomena out there to be measured (cid:498)objectively(cid:499, determinism=behaviour (biological, psychological, social/economic. Lombroso (1835-1909: son of jewish parents, born in verona, schooled by jesuits, studied medicine. Interested in psychiatry: anatomy and physiology, served in army. L"uomo delinquent: most famous text (criminal anthropology, became a prison physician at turin and examined hundred of convicts, at least 22 other scholars writing on the same issue, his analysis took off and he became famous. Influenced by darwin (social, biological assumptions: comte (auguste) on empirical positivism (natural sciences, criminals distinguished by multiple physical anomalies, atavism-subspeicies of man, most the convicts are born that way and that"s why there in jail 70% of them.
