Interactionism + Labelling theory

Question 1

Becker

Answer 1

Labelling
-Being deviant or ciminal is someone who a label success fully been applied
-Moral Entrepreneurs, lead campaign, creating outsiders
-Marijuana Tax Act (1937)
-Efforts of power to redefine behaviour undermining their postion

1963

Question 2

Circourel

Answer 2

Bias
-Decisions to arrest based on stereotypes
-Typifications used to focus on certain groups
-Courts won’t support non custodial sentences for WC
-Justice for MC negotiable, ‘counselled, warned, released’

1968

Question 3

Lemert

Answer 3

Deviance
-Primary + Secondary deviance
-SD leads to a hostile reaction, SFP from overriding master status, leading to deviant career
-Not act itself but reaction creating deviancy

1951

Question 4

Douglas

Answer 4

Statstics socially constructed
-Tell us about activities of agents who construct them (Police + Coroners)
-Type of death determined via interations + negotiations between actors
-Relatives guilt mean some press for ‘misadventure’ leading to dark figure
-Data is superficial

1967

Question 5

Cohen

Answer 5

Deviancy Amplification
-Attempts to control increase rate
-Mods + Rockers, reaction, exaggeration, ME crackdown
-Groups Demonised, marginalisation, legitimate outsider status

1972

Question 6

Braithwaite

Answer 6

Reintergrative shaming where negative impact made without stigmatising offender as evil

1967

Question 7

Atkinson

Answer 7

Coroners common sense theory
-Impossible to know exact cause of death
-Bounded rationality

1978

Question 8

Rosenhan

Answer 8

Psuedo-Patient experiment
-Master status derived from label
-One symptom, full diagnoses, different traetment
-Human behaviour misinterpretated

1973