Labeling Theory

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    Labeling Theory: Blood And Crips And Bloods By Rodney King

    Labeling Theory Labeling theory proposes deviance that socially constructed through reaction instead of action . the labeling theory builds reaction to the blood and crips: made in America movie. The film highlights many causes that lead to the creation of criminal gang. Crips and Bloods consist of a group of African American in southern Los Angeles. The formation of these groups created on the self-hatred legacy among black African Americans. Powerful individual such as police officer, judge, and

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    Labeling Theory

    Labelling Theory and Symbolic Interaction „No very sharp line can be drawn between social pshycology and individual pshycology” George Herman Mead Introduction In recent years, renewed and increased attention has been given to the need to organize a variety of theories into an interdisciplinary or integrated theory that captures tile contributions that can be made from the many explanatory approaches that have emerged over the last one hundred years. This move towards integrated or

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    The Labeling Theory

    The labeling theory has a compulsive background that suggests the sociologist who first began researching the theory. Despite this, writers and recent researchers can not differ when exactly sociologist began researching this theory. The general creation of the labeling theory is noted to being around the 1930s to the 1970s. Writers and researchers believe that in 1938 Frank Tannenbaum was the first researcher to concoct the labeling theory. His findings inaugurated the idea of “the dramatization

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    Labeling Theory

    Howard Becker is noted one of the pioneers of the ‘labeling theory’. His book, ‘Outsiders’, holds a quote which is now widely used across the academic spectrum when studying labeling and deviance, “social groups create deviance by making the rules whose infraction constitutes deviance and by applying those rules to particular people and labeling them as outsiders. From this point of view, deviance is not a quality of the act the person commits, but rather a consequence of the application by others

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    Benny's Labeling Theory

    concept and founding of the labeling theory. John Hamlin stated, “The labelling perspective had a large number of followers in the 1960s and early 1970’s…It has lost in recent years much of its early luster but so much of what it has given to theoretical criminology remains as truisms” (Hamlin, 2001). Figures such as Edwin M. Lemer, Howard S. Becker, Kai Erikson, and John Kitsuse are the ones who came to define and outline the labeling theory approach. Once the labeling prospective was introduced

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    Social Labeling Theory

    The label of deviance, however, is acutely important in the context of race. Labeling theory is the process of an individual being marked as deviant by society for some kind of act, and then, through internalizing the label, repeatedly engaging in deviant behavior; an extension of this theory is further stigmatization of "deviant" individuals by institutions based on their label (Rios 2011). Such labels can be placed on a person's race

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    Appendix B Eth125

    minority. Labeling theory A sociological approach introduced by Howard Becker that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants and others engaging in the same behavior are not. Part II Select three of the identity categories below and name or describe at least 3 related stereotypes for each: Race Ethnicity Religion Gender Sexual orientation Age Disability Category Stereotype 1 Stereotype 2 Stereotype 3 Race Racial profiling Scapegoating Theory Minority Group

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    Eth/125 Appendix B

    individual differences into account. Prejudice A negative attitude toward an entire category of people, such as a racial group or ethnic minority. Labeling theory The view of deviance in which someone being labeled as a “deviant” leads a person to engage in deviant behavior. This theory was originated by Howard Becker’s work in the 1960s. The labeling theory explains why people’s behavior clashes with societal norms. Part II Select three of the identity categories below and name or describe

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    Cultural Diversity

    | |Prejudice |A negative attitude toward an entire category of people, such as a racial or ethnic minority | |Labeling theory |The way in which negative labels get applied and on the consequences of the labeling process | Part II Select three of the identity categories below and name or describe at least 3 related stereotypes for each: • Race • Ethnicity • Religion •

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    Appendix B

    |orientation. | |Prejudice |An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examination of the facts | |Labeling theory |Deviance is not inherent to an act, but instead focuses on the tendency of majorities to negatively | | |label minorities or those seen as deviant from standard cultural norms.

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