Watch Richard Wilkinson’s TED talk which charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust. Do you agree …
Daily Archives: October 24, 2021
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Lesson Overview
This week we are introduced to the mainstream sociological approaches for understanding crime. We start with Durkheim’s anomie theory, which postulated that social changes and the feeling of normlessness in society were linked to the crime. Merton expanded …