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Interactionism and labelling theory - Coggle Diagram
Interactionism and labelling theory
The effects of labelling
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Joining a deviant subculture and having a deviant career
Young's study of hippy marijuana users
Crisis of individual self-concept
Deviance amplification spiral
Media exaggeration and distortion
Moral entrepreneurs call for a crackdown
Cohen - Folk Devils and Moral Panics
Folk devils are marginalised
The attempt to control deviance leads to it increasing
Types of deviance
Primary deviance
Secondary deviance
Evaluation
Lemert - After labelling society encourages people to become more deviant
Suicide and mental illness
Suicide
Atkinson - coroners' common sense knowledge
Evaluation
Douglas - the meaning of suicide
Mental illness
Institutionalisation
Evaluation
Paranoia as a self-fulfilling prophecy
The social construction of crime
Typifications
Cicourel - police have a stereotype of a 'typical delinquent'
Working class and ethnic minorities
Middle class juveniles
Official crime statistics as a topic not a resource
Crime statistics are not valid
Cicourel - we should investigate he ways that they are constructed
Police patrol working class areas more
There is a dark figure of crime between the official statistics and the real rate of crime. We should use victim surveys/ self report studies to get a more accurate view
Differential enforcement
Social control agencies label certain groups
Piliavin and Briar - police decisions based on stereotypes
Deviance is a social construct
People only become deviant when labelled by others
Becker - social groups create deviance by creating rules and applying them to people who they label as outsiders
Evaluation of labelling theory