ANTH 1150 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Labeling Theory, Child Abduction, Operant Conditioning

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1150
• Professor: Victor Gulewitsch

Document Summary

3 types of law: civil: marriage licenses, contracts between individuals, administrative: regulating business activities, criminal: against the state; indictable= serious, summary= less serious (2 years less a day), Divided into 4 categories to describe what culture is: cultural crime: when behaviour gets defined differently amongst cultures. Ex: in canada it is illegal to be topless and in europe it is accepted widely: historical crime: defines change that happens over time. Ex: heroin was once placed inside a cough medication and is now illegal and a serious narcotic: contextual crime: depends on the context of the person and their views on who is receiving the information. Ex: at a hockey game if a ref makes a bad call someone may scream out ref bad call ! : gender crime: there are double standards placed on specific genders. Ex: if boys are found fighting= boys will be boys , if girls are found fighting= good girls don"t fight .