Advanced Higher Modern Studies

Learn how sociological explanations of crime may be useful to understand the causes of crime.

Seeks to understand how structures within society can influence human behaviour.

To examine assumptions about routine and behaviour

To explain social problems such as crime.

Is an organised study of human groups in society and social institutions.

For example, the family, the education system and work and the economy

Is one of a group of disciplines within social science. However, sociology runs into problems that are avoided by the natural sciences.

include the study of institutions or routines that are familiar to many, but through the discipline they are re-examined using a sociological mind set.

look how society was in the past and how it has changed and compare societies which have different types of behaviour.

naturalist assumptions. A naturalistic assumption would be that human behaviour is innate or biological.

This assumption is untrue, as human biology doesn’t change between societies but behaviour does.

Human beings are socialised through the institutions in their society.

Human behaviour is determined by society