LS227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Symbolic Interactionism, Labeling Theory, Differential Association
15 Nov 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Centred on interactions and how certain things make you feel. The passage of an individual through the stages of one or more related deviant identities. Symbolic interactionism: understand what the object means through an interaction. Labelling theory: how the social response to initial acts of deviance can move a person toward a deviant identity and career. Labelling people to be deviant can push them towards a deviant career. Differential association theory: how people learn to be criminals through interaction with other criminals and how they acquire a criminal identity. Nothing objectively bad of a particular act; but about the power to label and identity someone as deviant through the association of those acts. Interactionism centres on what happens to criminals once their deviant activities commence. Some groups or individuals have power to force the deviant label on the less powerful. The power can be applied unfairly; people may be wrongly accused of crime, scapegoated.
