Interactionism / Labelling Flashcards
Piliavin and Briar
Found police decisions to arrest youth mainly based on physical cues
Cicourel
Found officers ‘typifications’ - concentrate on certain ‘types’
. Justice is negotiable - WC vs MC male
. Had implications for how we use official stats - should be topics to study
Becker
Deviant is someone who label applied successfully (moral entrepreneurs)
. 2 effects
- New group of outsiders
- Increase in social control
Cohen
(Deviance Amplification Spiral)
Folk devils and moral panic - press exaggeration/distorted reporting created moral panic causing moral entrepreneurs calling for ‘crackdown’
Braithwaite
More positive labelling. 2 types:
- Disintegrative
^ crime and criminal labelled
- Reintegrative
^ label act not actor
Tripplett
In USA, increasingly less tolerant towards youth crime due to labelling
Lemert
Distinguishes between primary and secondary crime
Primary = not publically labelled and pointless to seek causes as so widespread
Secondary = result of societies reaction = becomes their master status
Young and Lemert
Not the act but societies reaction that causes someone to pursue a deviant career
Downes and Rock
Cannot predict someone who’s labelled will conform to a deviant career
Douglas
Death officially being labelled as suicide = interactions/negotiations between social actors
Lemert
(Paranoia)
Study of paranoia, some groups don’t fit into groups = PD
Leads to SD, gives ‘social audience’ further reason for exclusion - confirms patients paranoia
^ Rosenhan’s experiment
Atkinson
Coroner common sense knowledge
. Impossible to know meaning of the dead - ideas about ‘typical suicide’
Goffman
Institutionalisation
. Study of Asylums show effects admitted to ‘total institution’
. Undergo ‘mortification of self’ - replaced by inmate
. By degradation rituals - unable to adjust to outside world again
