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| Social Action / Interactionalists. |
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- Individuals create society.
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| Becker - Labelling Thoery |
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- No act is criminal until society says so.
- Crime is socially constructed.
- Social reaction.
- Malinowski - Incest at Trobrian Islands.
- Master Status.
- "Deviant Label = Deviant life"
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- Over rules any other statuses (father, friend ect...).
- You turn into the one label that society names you as, e.g theif.
- Leads to carring on stealing as you have no other expectations.
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| Criticims of Labelling Theory |
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- Doesnt look at why crime is commited.
- Self-fufilling prophecy - Master status - fails to acknoledge free will.
- Doesnt look at elements of power and structrure that determine our behaviour (media making you want things etc..)
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| Deviancy Amplification Spiral |
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- Label - Reaction from society - Moral Panic
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- Participant observation
- Lived in the drug taking culture
- Avoided Hawthorne effect.
- Realised drugs were only seen as bad when society labelled them as.
- Fear of Going Native and wasnt objective.
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