Labelling Theory
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- Created on: 12-01-18 18:30
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- Labelling Theory
- Understanding Deviance: Reaction not cause
- Responding to and enforcing rules
- John Kitsuse
- No agreed definition on what society determines as deviant
- John Kitsuse
- Evaluation
- Fails to explain the causes of primary deviance
- Many people commit crimes knowing that they illegal beforehand
- Lernert
- Crime and deviance are so commonplace that they do not need explaining
- Fails to distinguish between crimes of different severities and criminals who do different amounts of them
- Crime and deviance are so commonplace that they do not need explaining
- Fails to explain the causes of primary deviance
- Derived from the theory of symbolic interactionism
- Most people commit acts of crime and deviance
- Only a few get caught and stigmatised for it
- Most people commit acts of crime and deviance
- Howard Becker
- 'Deviancy is not a quality of the act a person commits but rather a consequence of the application by others of rules and sanction to an 'offender''
- Just because someone breaks a rule, it does not follow that others will define it as deviant
- Someone has to enforce the rules
- If the person is successfully labelled, then consequences follow
- Someone has to enforce the rules
- Someone has to enforce the rules
- If the person is successfully labelled, then consequences follow
- Responding to and enforcing rules
- The consequences of rule enforcement
- Evaluation
- Heavily criticised for appearing to suggest that labelling will inevitably lead to individuals becoming more deviant
- Too determinsitic
- Heavily criticised for appearing to suggest that labelling will inevitably lead to individuals becoming more deviant
- Lernert
- Primary deviance
- Rule-breaking
- Secondary deviance
- The consequence of the response of others
- Primary deviance
- Evaluation
- Deviant careers and the creation of rules
- Deviant career
- All processes that are involved in a label being applied and then the person taking the self-image of the deviant
- Creating rules
- Evaluation
- Becker
- There are differences in power and that it is the duty of sociologists to side with the underdog
- No overall theory of differences in power is given
- There are differences in power and that it is the duty of sociologists to side with the underdog
- Becker
- Deviant career
- Phenomological approaches to deviance
- Evaluation
- Taylor, Walton and Young
- This approach does not argue where the meanings come from in the first place
- Taylor, Walton and Young
- Concentrates on the processes by which certain acts are defined as deviant and others are not
- Aaron V.Cicourel
- There is no clear-cut way of determining delinquents from non-delinquents
- Evaluation
- Labelling, values and policy Implications
- Liazos
- Labelling theories, by exploring marginalised deviant activities, are reinforcing the idea of pimp, prostitutes and mentally ill
- Gouldner
- Labelling theory fails to provide any real challenge to the status quo
- Liazos
- Understanding Deviance: Reaction not cause
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