CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Execution By Firing Squad, Erving Goffman, Social Inequality
21 Jul 2016
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Thomas, george herbert mead and charles horton cooley. Symbolic interactionism is about development of identity, self-image and self- concept. Favorable and unfavorable responses from others in society would contribute to development of self image. Events can have different meanings for different people with different experiences. Meaning and conception of self arise through social interaction. Most theorists associated with labeling perspective and the sociology of deviance were influenced by symbolic interactionism of chicago school theorists. Emerged and became the predominant explanation of crime and deviance during 1960s. Growing concerns about racial discrimination, social inequality and civil rights. Emergence of diversion programs aimed at preventing juveniles from being stigmatized. Concern about labeling as a self fulfilling prophecy . Labeling perspective argues that once an individual is labeled as deviant, this becomes their master status which in turn becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
