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Effects of labelling - Coggle Diagram
Effects of labelling
Deviant career
Secondary deviance is likely to provoke further reactions from society and reinforce deviant outsider status. This may lead to more deviance and deviant career
Young uses the concept of secondary deviance and deviant career in his study of hippy marijuana users in Notting Hill. Initially drugs were peripheral to hippies- primary deviance however labelling by the police led to the hippies increasingly saw themselves as outsiders. The began to create a deviant subculture wearing more way out clothes and drugs became a central activity leading to more attention from police
However although a deviant career is common outcome of labelling, Labelling theorists are quick to point out that its not inevitable. Downes and Rock note that we can't predict whether someone who has been labelled will follow deviant career because they are always free to choose not to deviate further
Lemert and Young illustrate the idea that it is not that act itself but the reaction that creates serious deviance
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Master Status
Some deviance is labelled. Secondary deviance is the result of societal reaction of labelling. Being caught and labelled as a criminal can involve being stigmatised and shammed. Once someone is labelled others may only see him as the label becoming their master status or controlling identity
This can provoke a crisis for the individuals self concept or sense of identity. One way to resolve this is through the individual accepting the deviant label this may lead to self fulfilling prophecy in which individuals act like the label
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