SOCIOL 2C06 Study Guide - Edwin Sutherland, George Herbert Mead, Erving Goffman
9 Apr 2013
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20: pager, the mark of a criminal record . Stigma and labeling: managing and resisting a deviant identity. The i": the spontaneous and creative component of the self". The me": the social component of the self". Deviance is not a property inherent in certain forms of behavior, it is a property conferred upon those forms by the audience which directly or indirectly witnesses them". Social groups create deviance by making rules whose infractions constitute deviance, and by applying those rules to particular people and labeling them as outsiders. From this point of view, deviance is not a quality of the act a person commits, but rather a consequence of the application by others of rules and sanctions to an offender. Moral entrepreneur e. g. adler & adler, ch. The process of tagging, defining, identifying, segregating, and describing an individual for the purpose of special treatment".
