CRM/LAW C107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Labeling Theory, Edward Sagarin, Frank Tannenbaum
6 Apr 2017
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Stigma as a process where audiences have changed: wrongdoings changing from something that is evil to seeing it as the violation of a constructed, a deviant person is a disvalued person (edward sagarin) We are interested in creation, enforcement, and who rules are directed at: 1. Constructionist: subjectivist- concerned with how judgements of deviance come about, how certain behavior attract condemnation, how people become stigmatized. Joel best- before speaking of deviance, used to be deviate behavior (anti-social behavior) (merton: historically term was trapped in harm, pathology, degeneracy, then shift. Becker- (cid:1005)95(cid:1004)s (de(cid:448)ia(cid:374)t (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior is (cid:374)ot (cid:374)or(cid:373)ati(cid:448)e, (cid:374)ot si(cid:374), it"s differe(cid:374)t. Constructionism downplays features of deviance, emphasizes how they are conceptualized, seen, judged. Stronger the reaction and the larger the audience. Curra: becker,lemer, kitsuse all constructionist (measuring how they become norms, how they are enforced. Primary deviance: polygenic, arising out of a variety of social, cultural, physiological factors to why people broke the law, people break rules.
