Violence is often deemed negative, however violence can contain positivity, and according to Schinkel (2010) violence must also have a positive constructive component. ... Structural violence refers to an orderly method in which social structures either harm or to somewhat disadvantage individuals. ... Currently positivists outline and identify violent criminals in a method geared to ascertaining which individuals are "at risk" of certain behaviour, there is not a one-to-one link between crime and behaviour, however there is ...

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This in turn articulate the contemporary sociologist to define the discipline of sociology and developed models and methods, combining ideas and update classical approaches, due to negative aspects in the social world. ... Most of Parsonian ideas focused mainly on large-scale components of norms, values with integration of individual action preoccupied with rules and ideals central in social system. ... For once, abstraction and lack of connection with research method is one of the Parsonian weaknesses criticized by other sociologist. ...

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