CRM 1301 Lecture : reading_notes
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He believed that society evolved and that each stage in the evolutionary development of society was necessary and perfect. People, especially the lower classes, should be submissive to authority and natural laws and resign themselves to their lot in life. In the descent of man (1871), charles darwin (1809-1882) suggested that some people were. Major differences between positivism and classicism and neoclassicism. General problems with positivist theories: overprediction, generally account for too much crime. It also denies the existence of multiple and socially constructed realities and leads to a blind acceptance of the status quo: the belief in determinism, positivists generally assume that human beings only adapt or react. A problem is that they also create: the belief in determinism allows the positivist to present an absolute situation uncomplicated by the ability to choose. If they were recently dead, they would measure the weight or volume of the brain itself. Darwinism had not been presented or accepted at that time.
