CRM 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: National Deviancy Symposium, Erving Goffman, Labeling Theory
24 Feb 2016
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Chicago school: changed the way we do ethnographic work: Symbolic interaction: human society as symbolic interaction, routes. In the 1960"s: ideas shift, how is power enforced, on who, how do we (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) theorize crime, theories themselves shifted into what is crime, how is it enforced, who is a criminal. This became the regular component of criminology now. (cid:1) (cid:1) empathetic relationships with the people they were studying : homeless, prostitutes, etc. People are strong individuals, our ability to speak and communicate, create complex ideas and relay them to one another, that"s what constitutes the social community (cid:1) Always changes based on our interpretations (cid:1) (cid:1) (we have our own meanings for them, they don"t define us) (cid:1) (cid:1) Social structures set conditions for actions, but do not determine them. We are social entities that go around in society and interpret others. Social constructivist: we give things meaning, and evaluate everything.
