SOC 2070 Chapter Notes -Erving Goffman
2 Mar 2013
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Week 7 readings part ii soc 2070 adler readings. Identity development the process of acquiring a deviant identity unfolds in stages as a deviant" or. Moral" career, with people passing through stages that move them out of their innocent identities towards one labeled as different" by society. Adler and adler 7 stages of the deviant identity career: stage 1: Begins once people are caught and publicly identified as deviant. Other starts to think of them differently: stage 2: People will change their attitudes toward him or her, or talking about him/her behind him/her back. As new spreads, they might develop a spoiled identity", one with a tarnished reputation. Deviant labeling is hard to reverse and once people"s identities (erikson suggested) are spoiled, they are hard to socially rehabilitate: stage 4: The dynamics of exclusion (lemert), friends start deriding and ostracizing him/her from their social group: stage 5: Others may welcome or include him/her into their deviant circles or activities.
