SOCI 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Labeling Theory, Metanarrative, Social Change
15 Apr 2018
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Liazos (1972: we are concentrating on the wrong subject (street criminals, 16 deviance texts examined and 3 biases located largely within labelling theory: Top dogs left untreated (top dogs= corporations/white collar crimes: i(cid:374) o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e fashio(cid:374)s the(cid:374) (cid:449)e"re (cid:448)i(cid:272)ti(cid:373) far (cid:373)ore (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:272)orporatio(cid:374)s tha(cid:374) people on the street not about feelings. Marx: wrote about extensively about inequality, particularly during the capitalist mode of production, argued that capitalism created the divide between proletariat and bourgeoisie and that it was responsible for deviance. The postmodern: is a central fixture of critical perspective, postmodernists tend to focus on the following: It is generated through interaction with others. Language struct thought there are no objective truths only different ways of interpreting and discussing the social world. There are many truths, social theories are merely grand narrative (all scientific work is just fables/stories written by people with un/conscious bias [+/- on them])
