Sociology 2270A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Juvenile Delinquency, Scientific Method, Ethnocentrism

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2270A/B
• Professor: Dr. Peter Chimbos

Document Summary

Interested in social darwinism: argued in his writings that both biological organisms (human beings) and social organisms (society) grow in size and increase in complexity as they grow older, ex. A baby grows up to be a man/woman, so there are stages for that: ex. A small community becomes a metropolitan city: ex. A small country becomes an empire: we observe change in structure, and this change brings change in the functions of the biological organism, we observe change in the family structure which brings change in the functions, e(cid:454). Pare(cid:374)t"s di(cid:448)or(cid:272)e, (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge i(cid:374) stru(cid:272)ture a(cid:374)d fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s of fa(cid:373)il(cid:455) u(cid:374)it (cid:894)o(cid:374)e parent does job for both?: parts of the institutions of society and freed and dispersed. Types of societies (militant and industrial: divided societies into two types, militant, the(cid:455)"re (cid:272)hara(cid:272)terized (cid:271)(cid:455) a (cid:272)e(cid:374)tralized go(cid:448)er(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t for the purpose of warfare. In militant societies, there is unlimited political co(cid:374)trol o(cid:448)er a perso(cid:374)"s life: rigidity.