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Labelling Theory Flashcards

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Social control agents and Typifications

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Cicourel - social control agents > Typifications - more likely to be stopped and searched - stereotyping when arresting - WC most likely to be stopped and searched than middle class

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Effects of labelling

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Lemert - societal reaction - primary: not public ally labelled not “deviant” - secondary: labelled as “deviant” becomes master status (stigmatisation)

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Effects of labelling - SFP

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SFP- living up to a label - master status > joined subcultures. young= hippy marijuana drug use become master status due to to societal reaction

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Deviance amplification spiral

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Media exaggeration - moral panic - crackdown - stigmatisation - SFP master status

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Criticisms

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Deterministic - no free well. - offender as victim. Fails to explain deviance before labelling

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