SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Symbolic Interactionism, Relativism
18 Apr 2013
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A combo of several interpretive/critical theories associated with social constructionism that informs more subjective understandings of deviance. The constructionist stance: berger and luckmann s (1966) work on the sociology of knowledge, they show how social life shapes everything people know, they introduce the term social constructionism , labeling theory, dominant approach to studying deviance in. 1960s was criticized: conflict theorists claimed labeling theory ignored how elites shape deviance definitions, feminists claimed labeling theory ignored women s victimization by men, gay rights activists argued for political rights. Assign meaning or making sense of behaviours classified as deviant. Symbolic interactionism: foundation for other interpretive theories, role-taking. See the world from the pov of others: looking-glass self (how do we appear to others, significant others (what would they say), generalized other (what would people say) results in varying meanings & interpretations of self/others. Labeling theories: meaning, interaction, interpretation, becker: relativism. Deviance is not contained within individuals but in response of others.
