The rise of the modern society Flashcards

An intro to criminology - Roger Hopkins Burke

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What initiated the rise of the modern society?

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The decline of the medieval society in Western Europe

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Why was the authority of the aristocrats being questioned?

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Because of their claims of natural superiority and their corrupt social practices

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Societies were becoming….

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more industrialised and urbanised, causing more fluid and anonymous interactions in human relationships.

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The 4 origins of the modern society…

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Emergence of humanist ideas and protestanism, the scientific revolution of the 19th century, the 18th century philosophical enlightenment and the evident superiority of modernist intellectual tradition over all others.

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The modern society in politics

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Growth of the centralised nation-state and the extension of beaurocratic forms of administration, surveillance and control.

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The modern society in culture

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There was a challenge to tradition in the name of rationality with emphasis on scientific and technical knowledge

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Where the explanations of crime and criminal behaviour different?

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Yes. the nature of criminal justice interventions were also different

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Have traditional ways of explaining crime fully disappeared?

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No

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