SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Herbert Blumer, Symbolic Interactionism, Slut

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Ryan Broll

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Labelling theory: explains how crime and deviance are defined and how rule breaking is reacted to by those in power, recall the social reaction perspective! Deviant identities: lemert (1969, primary deviance: initial deviant act, secondary deviance: societal reaction, de(cid:448)ia(cid:374)t does(cid:374)"t (cid:374)e(cid:272)essaril(cid:455) al(cid:449)a(cid:455)s (cid:373)ea(cid:374) (cid:272)ri(cid:373)i(cid:374)al. It just (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s doi(cid:374)g so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g that goes outside of the social norm. ex. Conflict theory: rooted in the work of karl marx, marx argued that capitalism would inevitably produce internal tensions that would lead to its own destruction, false consciousness vs. class consciousness, bourgeolse (wealthy people. 99% of population: emphasizes social, political and economic inequality between social groups. The poor and working class have no relation to those who are rule makers. Left realism: two main causes of working class street crime, 1. This causes an untrusting public: aims to be a more practical perspective. Victim: changes in any of these elements will effect the crime rate in society.