CRIM 2653 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Junk Science, Scientific Method, Human Science
16 Aug 2016
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Emergence of criminology as a sociological discipline: looking at crime as a social phenomenon. Enlightenment: the era between the late 17th and 18th century, when people began to adopt scientific method Up until this period, human beings, nature, and society, were interpreted through the lens of religion the chain of being: god is the most superior force. ^-complex theory, a roman-catholic theoryputting everything in its fixed, internal place. God, angels, animals (human beings and animals). this hierarchal structure was determined by the hierarchy of their souls. Racism get its origins from this kind of hierarchizing naturethere were different levels of human beingsthe defining characteristic of being a human being is having a soul and the capacity to be saved There has always been a desire on the part of people to understand the human nature according to certain key characteristicsthe hierarchization of people and animals based on descriptive and ascriptive criteria is still evident today.
