SOC 3710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Juvenile Delinquency, Selective Perception, Erving Goffman
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Soc 3710 5 th lecture september 18 th , 2014: labelling theory: becker, lemert, goffman and others. When an actor commits a crime (primary deviance), however mild, the institution will bring social penalties down on the actor. From this point of view, deviance is not a quality of the act the person commits, but rather a consequence of the application by other of rules and sanctions to an "offender. " Drug use, domestic violence, fraud, etc: application of labels, members of society, moral entrepreneurs. 4d) examples: chambliss" saints and the roughnecks study. = were active in school affairs and athletics, chambliss noted that they were some of the most delinquent boys at hanibal high school. The saints were successful in school with grade point averages (gpas) of an a or b but spent most days manipulating teachers to get out of school early.
