Text Book - A Primer on Crime and Delinquency Theory, Third Edition by Robert M. Bohm and Brenda L. Vogel
1) Using Chapters 6 & 7 of your text and the internet, in narrative format and no less than 500 words give an overview of Macrosociological Theory and Microsociological Theory. Outline each, and compare and contrast the similarities and differences of each.
2) What influence did Emile Durkheim have on Macrosociological Theory?
3) How would Gabriel Tarde explain crime under the Microsociological Theory?
4) If you were a criminal justice professor giving a lecture on the Theory of the Chicago School, what are the two derivatives of the Chicago School? Describe them.
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The first was that, since the sole elements of which society is composed are individuals, then the explanation of social phenomena must lie in psychological facts. To this objection Durkheim's habitual response was to revert to the biological analogue -- i.e., the constituent molecules of the living cell are crude matter, yet the association of such cells produces life. The whole, in other words, is something greater than the sum of its parts.