SOSC 2650 Lecture Notes - Youth Subculture, Counterculture, Social Control
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Lecture 12 social construction and symbolic interactionism, part ii. Lecture overview: assignments, brief recap, erving goffman and stigma *social construction and symbolic interaction, stanley cohen and moral panic. Division of labor; show that there is a division of labor)** *forshadows debt: class and it can have transections; how these transactions affect us. Brief recap: labeling theory: social process theory *emphasize in label theory is the social process of labeling* Societal reaction to crime *labeling certain groups as criminal or deviant: social construction (vs. positivistic/scientific theory) Criminality and deviant are socially constructed phenomena. We make them this way through symbolic interactionism: symbolic interactionism: people communicate and interact with each other through symbols (e. g. words, gestures, images, labels, e. t. c) Labeling had an effect when they constructed themselves as deviant person. Impression management: our conscious or unconscious orchestration of a carefully designed presentation of self, so as to create a certain impression that fits our goals or needs in a social interaction.
