SOC205H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Labeling Theory, For Marx
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Labelling theory generated something of a debate about the nature and limitations of what has been referred to as underdog sociology. Horowitz and leibowitz (1968) increased the emphasis on the political nature of some deviant activity. Or, more specifically, that deviance should be grasped as a primitive crypto-political action. " Unlike durkheim, marx appears to have been relatively unconcerned by crime as a subject. Marx was a political economist/sociologist whose concern was with the nature of social divisions and the distribution of power within society. It was to the relations of production that one should look in the search for the answers to such questions. Within industrial societies, the relations of production can be understood as a dyad, involving a capitalist class that owns the means of production working class that has to sell its labour in order to survive. Society polarizes into groups - or classes - whose interests are.
