SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Labeling Theory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2070
• Professor: Parnaby

Document Summary

Origin of deviance cannot be found in the subject. Born into the social system (the meaning(s) of this social system are placed upon you) Our sense of (cid:498)self(cid:499) emerges via symbolic communication (cid:523)how does it grow, what. Self is made up of two different parts :(cid:499))(cid:499)- source of impulse and action; responsible. The (cid:498)me(cid:499)- awareness of oneself as meaningful object relative to others. Sense of self (who we are, how we should behave ect. ) is in part, a product of how others perceive us. Nothing is inherently deviant for human hebaviour (some sort of action) does it mean, ect) (becker 1963) (cid:498)deviance(cid:499) is anything labeled as such through symbolic communication. Deviance is in the eye of the beholder(cid:499) How reactions/ labels lead ti a (cid:498)reorganization(cid:499) of self (cid:498)primary(cid:499) vs. (cid:498)secondary(cid:499) deviance: Deviant act doesn"t define the person"s role or status (cid:523)nobody thinks less of you b/c of something you did.