The Effects Of Labelling And Deviance Amplification Flashcards
What is primary deviance?
Deviants acts that have not been publicly labelled
What is primary deviance?
Deviants acts that have not been publicly labelled
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What is a master identity?
When people come to see someone only in terms of that one label
What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Individual acts out or lives up to their deviant label; they become what the label says they are
What is a deviant career?
When people have been labelled as deviant have conventional opportunities blocked so are pushed to committing further deviant acts
What is secondary deviance?
Any further deviance once a person has been publicly labelled as deviant
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What is the Deviance Amplification Spiral?
The attempt to control deviance which leads to an increase in the level of deviance.
Leads to greater attempts to control it and in turn produces yet higher levels of deviance.
‘Folk devils and moral panics’ S. Cohen
What is moral panic?
A wave of public concern about some exaggerated or imaginary threat to society due to media reporting
What are folk devils?
Individuals or groups posing an image d or exaggerated threat to society
What is disintegrative shaming?
The crime and the criminal are labelled as bad and the offender excluded from society
What is reintegrative shaming?
The crime, but not the actor, is labelled
