Labelling Theory - the effects of labelling
- Created by: Victoria Prior
- Created on: 05-11-13 12:03
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- Labelling Theory - The effects of labelling.
- Lemert
- Primary Deviance
- Many acts that go uncaught.
- Those who commit them do not usually see themselves as deviant.
- Secondary Deviance
- Others see the offender in terms of the label, which becomes the individuals 'master status'
- Results for societal reaction i.e. labelling someone as an offender can involve stigmatising and excluding them from normal society.
- Primary Deviance
- Self-fulfilling prophecy (SFP)
- Being labelled as a crimianl may provoke a crisis for the individuals self concept which could lead to a SFP where they live up to the label resulting in secondary deviance.
- Absorb the label once labelled, deviance is amplified.
- YOUNG - Hippy marijuana users
- Implications - Mass Media.
- Further societal reaction may reinforce the individual's outsider status and lead them to join a deviant subculture that offers support, role models and a deviant career.
- Deviance Amplification Spiral
- The attempt to control deviance leads it to increasing rather than decreasing.
- Cohen - Folk Devils and Moral panics - study the mods and rockers.
- Media exaggeration and distortion began a moral panic.
- Moral entreprenuers called for a crackdown - police responded by arresting morte youths causing more concern.
- Demonising the mods and rockers as 'folk devils' marginalised them further, resulting in more deviance.
- Downes + Rock
- Cannot predict whether someone who has been labelled will follow a deviant career, because they are always free not to deviate further.
- Functionalists believe deviance leads to social control where as lemert believes social control leads to deviance.
- Lemert
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