SOC 1500 Lecture 7: Interactionist, Critical, and Feminist Perspectives on Crime
6 Oct 2016
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People are active in shaping their world: reality is developed through interactions with others, other theories have assumed that society shapes people; this argues the opposite perspective. Explains how crime and deviance is defined and how rule breaking is reacted to by those in power. In 1969, lemert established deviant identities: primary deviance the initial deviant act. E. g. , girls are typically labelled more harshly for their promiscuity than a male: secondary deviance societal reaction, internalizing the label. E. g. , after she is labelled for her actions, she may become more promiscuous and continue to offend because she internalized the label. One critique of labelling theory is that when people are labelled as something, they don"t always internalize that label; they try to improve themselves: its not always a bad thing to be labelled. Emphasizes social, political, and economic inequality between social groups. Focuses on conflict between powerful and less powerful classes.
