SOCIOL 2CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sicko, Shoplifting, Erving Goffman
3 Mar 2020
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11:58 am: we all engage in behaviours deemed deviant , however, deviant label only applied to small % of inds, # contexts when this can occur: When individuals deviance is noticed/exposed and label sticks. Caught shoplifting, now regarded as a thief. When an abstract status is enforced upon individuals. Something that exists in thought, is assumed. Effeminate looking man is labeled & stigmatized as gay: when a deviant label is successfully applied: Ind is set on a path to developing a deviant id. Path often follows particular pattern walk in the woods: acquiring deviant id a process, begins when inds move from innocent id moral guy , to id as different" or other" dishonest , sicko , criminal . Our perception of who we think the individual is changes. We become unsure of who they really are: occurs in a series of stages or careers. Becker, 1963; goffman, 1961: labeled ind becomes" a different kind of person.
