Labelling Theory - Social Construction of deviance
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- Created on: 05-11-13 11:10
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- Labelling Theory - Social Construction of deviance.
- Typifications - Cicourel
- Argues that police use stereotypes of the 'typical delinquent' individuals fitting the typification are more likely to be stopped, arrested and charged.
- WC more likely to be arrested than MC.
- MC have parents who can negotiate successfully on their behalf if they do get arrested and will less likely be charged.
- EVALUATION - Marxists criticise labelling theory for failing to locate the origin of such labels in the unequal structure of capitalist society.
- Howard Becker
- Social groups create deviance by creating rules and applying them to particular people whon they label as 'outsiders'.
- An act or a operson only becomes deviant when labelled by others as deviant.
- Police, courts and media adopt stereotypes and generate societal reaction.
- How people amke sense of social reality.
- Diferential enforcement - Piliavin and Briar - base criminals on steretypes, youth + psyhical appearance.
- Crime Statistics - can't take at face value or use them as a source as they do not tell the whole story.
- Deviance is relevant - not the act, societies reaction.
- Whos doing the act?
- Place
- Culture over time
- Time
- Whos witnessing the act?
- THESE CHANGE OVER TIME.
- Examples
- Marijuna tax act - 1930's
- Decriminalisation of suicide - 1960's
- Decriminilsation of homosexuality USA - 1974
- Steven lawrence murder.
- Positivists
- Man is shaped by Social forces.
- We can measure the causes of crime.
- A minority are driven to deviance.
- Interpretivists
- Man is shaped by ideas and meanings.
- Most people engage in devaince.
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- Typifications - Cicourel
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