Chapter 5 Labelling Theory Flashcards
World is a stage and individuals are actors presenting their show to self
Dramaturgical Approach
What is front stage
How one presents his or herself to the world
What is back stage
Who you really are
Viewed as a negative or discreiting attribute that has ability of reducing people’s evaluation of an individuals who possesses it (i.e physical disability, institutionalized…)
Stigma- Goffman, E (2011)
Three types of stigma according to Goffman
- Physical deformities (body)
- Character flaws (shortcomings) - perceived as weak, mental disorders, imprisonment, addictions, unemployment
- tribal stigmas- race, nation, religion
People with particular stigma often have similar learning experiences regards their plight and changes in conception of “self”
Moral Career
Those who become socialized into his or her unfavourable situation yet “learning and incorporating the standards against which they fall
Inborn stigma
Reasons that change your conception of self
-born into a certain race, religion, nation
- family to protect their young (someone with a disability)
- become stigmatized later in life ex. develop cancer, criminalization, an accident
- initially socialized in an alien community who
A culture explained either by factors in the experience of adolescence or by the manipulation of young people’s spending and leisure, through the advertising and other mass media. The functional separation of home, school, and work supposedly makes teens increasingly distinct from adults and subject to peer group influence rather than parent and other adult influences
Youth Culture
refers to the set of linked social institutions, social structures and social practices that maintain and enforce “normal” ways of relating and behaving
Social Order
A sociological approach that seeks to reveal how human awareness is implicated in the production of social actions, social situations, and social worlds
Phenomenology
- allows people to speak about their experiences, allow violent criminals to direct
- EX. Ed Camper- killed mother and sister and interviewer asked about it
A sociological theory developed by Harold Garfinkel that roughly translates into the study of people’s practices or methods. This micro-perspective views the social world as something that people must build and rebuild constantly in their thoughts and actions
Ethnomethodolgy
- social psychological approach
- don’t have structured questions
- lets criminals describe their experience
Part of labelling theory, children will behave bad because they were called a bad kid
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
- EX. John M and schizophrenic
- It’s hard to shake a label once you have it
Theory to explain juvenile delinquency, people aren’t constantly a criminal. Youths learn to neutralize society’s moral constraints and will periodically come in and out of criminal behaviour
Drift Theory by Sykes & Matza
Techniques that juveniles use
*explains white collar crime as well
- Denial of Responsibility (“i got hurt as well”)
- Denial of victim (shoplift therefore victim less crime)
- Denial of injury (vandalism )
- condemnation of the condemners (law enforcement)
- Appeal to higher loyalties (ex. part of a gang)
