Labelling Theory

Question 1

Who is the key labellist thinker ?

Answer 1

Becker

Question 2

What is a moral entrepeneur?

Answer 2

People who change the laws

Question 3

Give two effects of changing the law

Answer 3

• creates outsiders
  -more social control agency e.g. police

Question 4

What is a social control agency and give one example of?

Answer 4

People who carry out law and label people e.g. police

Question 5

Give two reasons how a person was labelled

Answer 5

• appearance
  Situation

Question 6

What did Pivilon and Briar find ?

Answer 6

Youths arrested on physical cues e.g. gender

Question 7

What did cicourel call police who made decisions based on looks was known as ?

Answer 7

TYPIFICATION

Question 8

Give one example of a tyoification

Answer 8

Middle class youths didn’t fit stereotypes so not likely to be arrested

Question 9

What does a “dark figure of crime “ mean ?

Answer 9

Difference between official statistics and real rate of crime

Question 10

What are the effects of labelling ?

Answer 10

Primary deviance : acts not publicly labelled e.g. not paying train ticket
Secondary deviance : wide societal reaction e.g.murder

Question 11

What is the impact of secondary deviance

Answer 11

Makes offended feel like an outsider and makes them feel excluded

Question 12

What is it known as when a person undergoes label

Answer 12

MASTER STATUS

Question 13

Who did jock and young look at

Answer 13

Hippes

Question 14

What did jock and young find

Answer 14

Hippies seen as outsiders caused them to fall into devient subcultures

Question 15

How did Downes and rock criticise Becker ?

Answer 15

Not everyone who is labelled negatively will undergo a deviant subculture as you have FREE WILL IN LIFE

Question 16

What does the deviance amplification mean ?

Answer 16

You try to control deviance and leads to more deviance

Question 17

What was the case study for deviance amplification

Answer 17

Mods and rockers

Question 18

Explain how mods and rockers linked to a deviance amplification spiral ?

Answer 18

Had drama but media exaggerated the amount of beef so exalated . This caused a moral panic

Question 19

What is a moral panic

Answer 19

When society is scared

Question 20

What are the two types of shaming Braithwirthe found ?

Answer 20

DISINTEGRATIVE : Share on act and offencer
REINTERGRATIVE:: act is labelled but offended is not

Question 21

What is a benefit of reintergrative shamming ?

Answer 21

Allows offender to be able to adapt back into society and not feel like an outsider

Question 22

Who researched suicide in an interactionalist kind of way ?

Answer 22

Douglas

Question 23

What did Douglas find from his study ?

Answer 23

•decision to classify death taken by a coroner (important person who states whether person dead or alive ) and he argues a coroner may have STRONG religious views therefore would not say if a person committed suicide . As suicide is a sin -> statics don’t show meaning

Question 24

What did Adler say about suicide ?

Answer 24

He argues how does the coroner know to attach the label so we should find out where they get their knowledge from to input label

Question 25

What do interactionalist say about mental illness ?

Answer 25

It is a social construct

Question 26

Which theorist studied paranoia ?

Answer 26

Lemert

Question 27

What did Lemert find in his study ?

Answer 27

Not everyone falls into groups easily and people have label and makes them feel excluded causing them to become deviant and fall into crime as they hospitalised against their will

Question 28

What does Goffman say ?

Answer 28

Not all inmates adopt their new identity and this is shown through his study “asylum “