SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Labeling Theory, Symbolic Interactionism, Group Conflict
2 Mar 2013
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Chapter 3: explaining deviance: the perception, reaction and power. Role-taking: placing ourselves in the roles of others, we try to see the world from their points of view and determine our own actions accordingly. Looking-glass self: when determining how we look or act and how we feel about ourselves, we imagine how we appear to other people. Significant others: people who are important to us. Generalized other: society, other people in general. Labelling and stigmatization: deviance is a label that is attached to some people, which than has consequences for how they are treated by others and how they come to identify themselves. Week 4 readings - bereska 74-102, 105-108 41-45, 51-56, 98-104 soc 2070: tannenbaum spoke of the role that tagging plays in the dramatization of evil. Observers in society may initially identify a particular act as evil/deviant tagging causes the individual to change their self-image or identity to build around that label: lemert used the term labelling".
