Labelling Theory Flashcards
Who is the key labellist thinker ?
Becker
What is a moral entrepeneur?
People who change the laws
Give two effects of changing the law
- creates outsiders
-more social control agency e.g. police
What is a social control agency and give one example of?
People who carry out law and label people e.g. police
Give two reasons how a person was labelled
- appearance
Situation
What did Pivilon and Briar find ?
Youths arrested on physical cues e.g. gender
What did cicourel call police who made decisions based on looks was known as ?
TYPIFICATION
Give one example of a tyoification
Middle class youths didn’t fit stereotypes so not likely to be arrested
What does a “dark figure of crime “ mean ?
Difference between official statistics and real rate of crime
What are the effects of labelling ?
Primary deviance : acts not publicly labelled e.g. not paying train ticket
Secondary deviance : wide societal reaction e.g.murder
What is the impact of secondary deviance
Makes offended feel like an outsider and makes them feel excluded
What is it known as when a person undergoes label
MASTER STATUS
Who did jock and young look at
Hippes
What did jock and young find
Hippies seen as outsiders caused them to fall into devient subcultures
How did Downes and rock criticise Becker ?
Not everyone who is labelled negatively will undergo a deviant subculture as you have FREE WILL IN LIFE
What does the deviance amplification mean ?
You try to control deviance and leads to more deviance
What was the case study for deviance amplification
Mods and rockers
Explain how mods and rockers linked to a deviance amplification spiral ?
Had drama but media exaggerated the amount of beef so exalated . This caused a moral panic
What is a moral panic
When society is scared
What are the two types of shaming Braithwirthe found ?
DISINTEGRATIVE : Share on act and offencer
REINTERGRATIVE:: act is labelled but offended is not
What is a benefit of reintergrative shamming ?
Allows offender to be able to adapt back into society and not feel like an outsider
Who researched suicide in an interactionalist kind of way ?
Douglas
What did Douglas find from his study ?
•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
What did Adler say about suicide ?
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
What do interactionalist say about mental illness ?
It is a social construct
Which theorist studied paranoia ?
Lemert
What did Lemert find in his study ?
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
What does Goffman say ?
Not all inmates adopt their new identity and this is shown through his study “asylum “
