SOC209H5 Lecture 12: Lecture Note-March 19.docx
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Significant other does not have to be your partner, but it can be someone that is close to you: positive: enhances self, negative: damages self, self emerges: interaction/reflection, physical, moral, intellectual, social status. , influence individual"s behaviour, social control, labelling theory, 1960"s: suspicion of authority, exploitation, oppression, crime/delinquency. Criminal justice: deviant labels: criminal justice system (1) criminalization of dissent (2) oppression of weak, only the weak and poor will be oppressed because the rich will not (1) primary. Gambler, homosexual: primary & secondary deviance (2) secondary, reinforcement/continuation, reaction to deviance= punishment= application of negative labels publicly, formation of deviant identity. Outsider: individual becomes an outcast: an outcast is someone you see but don"t want to associate with them, usually outcasts usually find each other and create a subculture, outcasts are important because some people compare themselves to outcasts and it makes us feel good about ourselves.
