Week #14 Flashcards
What is Pinker’s argument on the Blank State?
a. Grounding values in a blank slate is a mistake. It’s a mistake because it makes our values hostages to fortune, implying that some day, discoveries from the field or lab could make them obsolete
b. Today the sciences of human nature have threatened the Blank Slate by trying to de- lineate what has to be present in the mind in order for learning to occur in the first place.
Explain Life Course Sociology
o Focus on:
• The interacting effects of macro-level events (Great Depression, WWII) and social location (class, gender) on individual life histories”
o Thus major attention to age, period and cohort
o Methods: Longitudinal cohort studies
What are Sampson and Laub’s ideas about stability?
i. Homotypic continuity
1. Continuity in the same kind of behaviour, continually committing crime, continually driving past the speed limit
ii. Heterotypic continuity over time and across domains
1. A continuity in a whole collection of behaviours that hang together
2. A lot of behaviours that you are likely to engage in
What are explanations of stability?
State dependence, Persistent Heterogeneity
What are Sampson and Laub’s ideas about change?
i. Change also happens
ii. Retrospective studies have exaggerated stability
1. People do change in retrospective studies, Gottfredson and Hirschi say change isn’t possible this isn’t true
What is Adolescence Limited Criminology (ALC)?
a. Adolescence-limited criminology focuses most of its attention on those in adolescence—a period in life that is defined as ranging from puberty to maturity or as being in between childhood and adulthood. Roughly, adolescence spans the ages of 12 to 20 years.
Why does Cullen believe about ALC?
It should be replaced with Life Course Criminology because it is bankrupt (leaves out too much, doesn’t yield effective data)
Who established the parameters of LCC?
that although working independently and not sharing the same theoretical views, Sutherland (developing theory) and Hirschi (developing research) established the central parameters of what I have termed adolescence-limited criminology
