Crime = social construct. the act itself isn't defiant until labelled. His book Outsiders based on Malinawovski's participant observation study, inc*st in this community was ok unless rly public, then label master status given, person was ostracised.
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Malinawovski case study
participant observation, studied a community living in a Pacific Island. Inces*t ok unless very public. the group would then label the perpetrators with the master status as ostracise them, often driving them to suicide.
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Who came up with the idea of master status? What did becker say about it?
Hughes. Becker said that people with the same master status such as 'drug addict' tend to gravitate towards each other because they understand what it's like to have this label. However this leads to a life of crime because they tend to use together.
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Cicourel- interactionalist. mc parents.
Mc parents use their social, cultural capital to negotiate the system. Reason behind low MC juvenile crime rates. Example, 2005 stanford uni. Brock turner, swimmer w 'bright future' only got 6moths (served 3) for sexually assaulting a girl cos his parents
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Cicourel- how the justice system perceive working class and middle class.
Police more likley to label wc as criminals and mc crime as a 'temporary lapse' because the kids come from good backgroumds and this leads to wc getting more severe punishments.
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evaluations of Cicourel
doesn't look at the reason why crime is committed only the responses. Argued that it assumes all judges feel the same. However counterargument is that many judges will feel the same. 71% privately educated, no black judges on the court of appeal.
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cohen
talk about moral panics, labelling people as scapegoats in the media etc.
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what can you apply the interactionist theory to?
Both working class crime and racism. Goes against the positivist view that black people or wc people are actually committing more crime just that they are more likely to be labelled as criminals by the criminal justice system.
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Malinawovski case study
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participant observation, studied a community living in a Pacific Island. Inces*t ok unless very public. the group would then label the perpetrators with the master status as ostracise them, often driving them to suicide.
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Who came up with the idea of master status? What did becker say about it?
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Cicourel- interactionalist. mc parents.
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Cicourel- how the justice system perceive working class and middle class.
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