SOCI 385 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mental Disorder, The Stereotypes, Labeling Theory
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Unstable, bad decision making, need help, dysfunctional, avoid them. Society tends to hang together with norms and values but sometimes people break these rules. This deviance are responded to by some agent of social control. These are authorities who try to get the deviant person to come by to conform with these rules. So, although some can get away with deviance, some get picked out. Develop identity of deviance and then subsequent the deviance that happens after that happens because of the identity, not whatever caused the initial rule breaking. These are the people who were picked out and then have a deviant identity which causes more deviance. Residual rule-breaking: when we break social rules, the rules we are breaking get lumped into different categories. He says there are some behaviors that don"t get a person lumped. He says there are some behaviors that don"t get a person lumped into a certain category.
