CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Youth Culture, Labeling Theory, Ethnomethodology
Document Summary
Labelling perspectives were introduced in the 1950s and 1960s. To understand crime we have to explore both objective and subjective dimensions of the criminal justice experience. Labelling perspectives challenge positivist criminology (biological, psychological or sociological) by arguing that crime is a social process. Crime is not an objective phenomenon, seen as an outcome of specific types of human interaction. Concern is with how human beings actively create their social worlds. The rise of labelling perspective accompanied the social changes that replaced the dominant image if the 1950s; By the 1960s conventional values and basic assumptions of the american way of life becomes challenged. Youth culture; birth of rock and roll. Conflict went to the heart of mainstream society. Sociologists started to view society as pluralistic. Society was made up of a number of diverse interest groups and classes. Social life was not immutable but subject to constant change associated with interactions between groups.
