CRM 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Labeling Theory, Symbolic Interactionism, Ethnomethodology
7 Mar 2018
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Tutorial session: going over essay instructions & continue watching film. Appreciate how labelling perspectives emerged out of the social and political context of the 1960s-1970s. Outline the basic concepts of labelling perspectives. Describe how labelling perspectives differ from positivist approaches (physical, psychological, and sociological) Critically evaluate the strengths, limitations, assumptions, and implications. Theoretical perspective emerging out of the 1960s and 1970s. Disintegration of a presumed social consensus of the 1950s. Emergence of youth culture (aka hippie culture) Second-wave feminism (first wave feminism considered to have happened/20"s voting rights) Crime is a violation of a consensus in society regarding core norms. Crime objectively exists out there , free from power and values. There are different perceptions of what constitutes the norm. There are particular power relations that determine what is deemed deviant and who gets to label people as deviant. Crime is defined by social action and reaction.
