SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Marxism, Homo Economicus, Property Crime
4 Oct 2016
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Context: students were labeled and depending on how they were labeled, they would generally conform to that. How someone with authority can have an effect on someone when they define them. Reaction: it"s not deviant until it"s reacted to as such . Power (social, job, the greater difference between defined and definers will directly effect the consequences) Moving someone from one status to another (generally decreased) Shame a person for violation a law, norm, or rule. Generally done in court or in the media. Becker (1963: moral entrepreneurs: relates to drug and drug enforcement. A person who has social power that can create or enforce moral norms. A sequence of social statuses through which people will move throughout their lives (careers, deviant and legitimate: master status: social status. Status that overrides all other in terms of importance regardless of the context in which you are found. This is how people perceive you, respond to you.
