Tag: social control
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Good Sociology Movies #1: Minority Report
Thought I’d start bashing out the occasional Friday post on good sociology movies… starting with Minority Report – which is a great intro to the ‘surveillance and crime control‘ aspect of the AQA’s 7192 sociology syllabus, crime and deviance topic, It’s the opening scene in Minority Report which is really the relevant bit here: the…
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Consensus Theories of Crime: An Introduction
Consensus theories generally see crime as unusual, dysfunctional and believe something has ‘gone wrong’ for the people who commit crime. Consensus theories include functionalism, strain theory and subcultural theory. Consensus Theory: the Basics According to consensus theories, for the most part society works because most people are successfully socialised into shared values through the family…
