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Lec 4 Flashcards

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Nonpositivist theorizing

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Interpretive and critical approaches are nonpositive

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Interpretive theories

Understandings of Deviance and Normality

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Our perceptions of and reactions to deviance

Interpretive theories emphasize social interaction, meanings, understandings and interpretations

Varied understandings of deviance and normality

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Symbolic interactionist theory

Communication creates understanding

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We communicate with others using symbols

Physical cues (hair, clothing, posture)
Conversational cues (vocal inflection)
Interactional cues(double look)

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Symbolic interactionist theory

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Role taking
Significant others
Generalized other
Looking glass self

These processes result in varied interpretations of self and others

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Looking glass-self

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How we think of ourselves is based on how others perceive us

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Labelling theory: Becoming an outsider

The labelling process steps

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A deviant label is applied

Rejection by the conforming world

Changes in lifestyle and identity

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Labelling theory: Tannenbaum

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Tagging (a deviant label is applied) leads to Dramatization of evil (label is generalized from the behaviour to the person) leads to changes in identity and lifestyle

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Labelling theory Lemert

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Primary deviance then getting caught then secondary deviance

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Secondary deviance

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Deviant behaviour that comes from being labeled

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Labelling theory: Goffman

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We may be stigmatized for a variety of reasons (physical. moral, group)

Courtesy stigma or stigma by association- stigmatized for the actions of others (ie mothers of school shooters)

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Labelling theory: Goffman

Dramatugical approach

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difference between the front staged self and back staged self

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Labelling theory: Goffman

If the role we have assumed is stigmatized we engage in

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Stigma management on the front stage (changing oneself to prevent being stigmatized)

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Labelling theory: Goffman

Acts that manage stigma in front of one audience may cause

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Stigma in other audiences

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Labelling theory: Becker

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Deviance is a master status

A person with a deviant master status becomes an outsider

Changes in identity and lifestyle occur

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The deviant career

Progressing through deviance

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Progression through deviance= progression through a career

Both are interpretive experiences

Stages and career contingencies

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Limitations of interpretive theories

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Failure to address the social structure

Failure to address long-term effects of labelling

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Critical theories

Power relations and social justice

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Power relations interact with emancipatory foundation (freedom foundation)

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Conflict theory Rules Serve the interests of

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The powerful

The powerful are less likely to break the rules

the powerless are more likely

The powerful cannot only coerce the powerless but also convince the powerless that the rules are logical in a democracy

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Hegemony and false consciousness

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A leader makes people think they are in safe hadns

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Power-reflexive theory

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Knowledge that emerges from locations of power is legitimate

In a panoptical society, not only do we survey others, we also engage in self-surveillance

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Panoptical society

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Society where people are under constant surveillance

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Feminist theory

Deviance is gendered

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Scholarly work has an androcentric bias

Social experienced are gendered

Academic work should be combined with social action

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Feminist theory

Intersectionality

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Micro-level- intersecting identities

Macro level- matrix of domination

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Matrix of domination

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Interconnecting all social issues like oppression to social classification

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Intersectionality and Indigenous Peoples

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Colonialism and Patriarchy intersect

Experiences of indigenous women and men differ

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Postmodern theory

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Broadly based on rejection of

Theories of society

Cohesive social categories

the possibility of truth

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Postmodern theory

Changes since the second world war

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Industrial has become commercial

Citizens have becomes consumers

Clear moral codes are eroding

The end of the individual

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Forms of postmodernism

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Skeptical postmodernism- chaos and meaningless

Affirmative postmodernism- Only local and specific knowledge is possible

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Limitations of critical theories

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Are they theories or just social processes

Conflict theories (fail to recognize conflict in society)

Responses to critiques lead to theoretical integration

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