interactionalism & labelling theory

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Becker
1. a deviant is someone to who the society attach a label to. 2. moral entrepreneurs- new law- creation of a group of outsiders, and an expansion of a social control agency
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Piliavin & Brian
police decision to arrest youth was based on dress, manner, gender, time, place and class from which they made judgments of their character.
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Cicourel
1. typifications- working class, youths.
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Lemert
1. primary deviance- deviant acts that have not been labelled often less serious crimes 2. secondary deviance- the result of societal reaction, that is being labelled. others now may see this person as their label and exclude them, could result in a
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Triplett
increased tendency to see young offenders as evil over minor deviance. for example truancy. this creates a self fulfilling prophecy and a deviant career.
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Atkinson
doesn't trust official statistics, for example, about the number of suicides- the statistics are merely a label attached to the person by the coroner based on their life.
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police decision to arrest youth was based on dress, manner, gender, time, place and class from which they made judgments of their character.

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Piliavin & Brian

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1. typifications- working class, youths.

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1. primary deviance- deviant acts that have not been labelled often less serious crimes 2. secondary deviance- the result of societal reaction, that is being labelled. others now may see this person as their label and exclude them, could result in a

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increased tendency to see young offenders as evil over minor deviance. for example truancy. this creates a self fulfilling prophecy and a deviant career.

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