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The Labeling Perspective

Three Interrelated Concerns:Three Interrelated Concerns:1)Social-Historical Development of 1)Social-Historical Development of LabelsLabels

2)Application of labels2)Application of labels

3)Practical Consequences of Labeling 3)Practical Consequences of Labeling ProcessProcess

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Mead’s Psychology of Punitive JusticeMead’s Psychology of Punitive Justice Tannenbaum’s Crime and CommunityTannenbaum’s Crime and Community Lemert’s Social PathologyLemert’s Social Pathology Becker’s The Outsiders and The Other Becker’s The Outsiders and The Other

SideSide Why was this Perspective so popular in Why was this Perspective so popular in

the 1960s?the 1960s?

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Labeling Perspective has Different Focus from Labeling Perspective has Different Focus from Other Theories of DevianceOther Theories of Deviance

Becker’s Issues with the ProcessBecker’s Issues with the Processmoral entrepeneursmoral entrepeneurs

Becker’s Sequential Model of DevianceBecker’s Sequential Model of Deviance Deviance as a Master StatusDeviance as a Master Status

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Primary and Secondary DeviancePrimary and Secondary DevianceLabeling Amplifies DevianceLabeling Amplifies Deviance

Retrospective InterpretationRetrospective Interpretation Goffman’s StigmaGoffman’s Stigma

So Why Do We Label?So Why Do We Label?

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Can You Recover from a Label?Can You Recover from a Label?

What About Rejecting a Label?What About Rejecting a Label?

Notion of Power: Links to Conflict Notion of Power: Links to Conflict TheoryTheory