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Interactionism and labelling theory
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- 1What does Becker say creates deviance?Social groups, by creating rules and applying them to people they think are 'outsiders' thus becoming labelled ass deviant.
- 2Labelling theorists argue social control agencies tend to do what?Label certain groups as criminal
- 3Pillavin and Briar found police arrests were based on what?Stereotypes about manner, dress, gender, class, ethnicity etc.
- 4Cicourel argues what about labelling and crime?Police use typifications of the 'typical delinquent' and individuals fitting this are more likely to be stopped etc. (W/C and ethnic minority juveniles (those from broken homes more likely to be charged)) M/C are least likely to fit this.
- 5Why are crime statistics a topic and not a resource?W/C fit typifications, police patrol W/C areas, more W/C arrests - thus statistics aren't valid picture. Cicourel says weshould use them as a topic to investigate the process.
- 6What is the dark figure?The difference between official statistics and the 'real' crime rate since we don't know how much crime goes undetected, unreported and unrecorded.
- 7What do some sociologists say will give us a more accurate view of crime statistics? Why is this challenged?Some say we should use victim surveys or self-report studies but it has been argued that people may lie about crimes they have commited.
- 8What does Lemert argue about labelling people as deviant?Lemert argues by doing this society encourages them to become more so causing 'secondary deviance'
- 9What is primary deviance?deviance which has not been publicly labelled, often trivial and go uncaught. e.g. speeding
- 10What do theorists argue labelling theory fails to adress about primary deviance?It fails to explain why people commit primary deviance before they're labelled.
- 11What is secondary deviance?Secondary deviance results from societal reaction (labelling) which can involve stigma and exclusion from society. Some see the offender solely by their status making it their 'master status' (identity)
- 12Being labelled may provoke a self concept crisis which leads to what?Self fulfilling prophecy - in which they live up to their label. Further reaction reinforces their status potentially leading to deviant career.
- 13Why is the labelling theory's theory of SFP criticised?Its argued it can be too deterministic assuming that once labelled SFP is inevitable although it is often the case it ignores their free will to stop.
- 14What did young study to do with the SFP?He studieshow weed was initially a side to hippies lives but after they were dubbed junkies they retreated into a deviant subculture where it became central to activity.
- 15What is the deviance amplification spiral?when an attempt to control deviance leads to it increasing rather than decreasing resulting in greater attempts to control it and then more deviance etc.
- 16What does Cohen have to say about deviance amplification?'Folk Devils and Moral Panics' study of the mods and rockers looked at how media exaggeration caused panic causing moral entrepeunerus to 'crack down' provoking more concern and demonising them to marginalise them further resulting in more deviance.
- 17What is the key difference between labelling theorists like Cohen and Young and functionalists?Functionalists see deviance as producing social control, labelling theorists see control as producing further deviance.
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- A level Sociology (Crime and Deviance) Flashcards on Interactionism and labelling theory, created by Sophie Wembridge on 24/05/2018.
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