SOCL 2001 : Exam 2 Sociology Notes
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It is the people with whom we are least connected who offer us the most opportunities. Network analysis in group research: network analysis researches use the basic concepts about groups and social networks that we have discussed to investigate how group life shapes individual behavior. Organizations: an organization is any social network that is defined by a common purpose and has a boundary between its membership and the rest of the social world, formal organizations, ex. Paradox: it is the deviants among us who hold society together. Crime: changes in how crimes are defined, fluctuations in whether people report crimes, in the case of murders, improvements in medical technology. Vii. crime from a rational calculation of its costs and benefits tries to prevent them from committing another crime: what the system attempts to achieve when it monitors a known criminal and.
