A.C. 2.2 + 3.2 - Describing and Evaluating Sociological Theory (UNIT 2) (4)
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- A.C. 2.2 Describe Sociological Theories.
- A.C. 3.2 Evaluate Sociological Theories.
- Advantage
- Shows that the Law is not a fixed set of rules to be taken for granted, but something whose construction we need to explain.
- It shows that the law is often enforced in discriminatory ways. Crime statistics are more a record of the activities of control agents than of criminals.
- highlights the role of the media in defining and creating deviance and for producing moral panics and fold devils
- Disadvantage
- It tends to be deterministic, implying that once someone is labeled, a deviant career is inevitable
- It emphasizes the negative effects of labeling gives the offender a kind of victim status.
- It fails to explain why people commit primary deviance in the first place before they are labeled.
- fails to explain why deviant behaviour happens in first place. there is no consequence that some people may choose to be deviant
- ignores the victim of crime and focuses on the 'criminal' there is a potential to romanticise or sympathise crime.
- Advantage
- Labelling Theory. Interactionism
- refers to how people in society interact with each other.
- Becker uses labelling to justify criminality, labelling is the identification of someone based upon someone's though and belief.
- Self-Fulfilling prophecy: being told something and acting, adapting, to what others see you as. e.g. criminal
- Moral Panic: fear caused amongst society in relation to an event.
- Stanley Cohen's study of the mods and rockers, in which two rival 'gangs' were labelled as troublemakers in the 1970s.
- Folk devil: a group labelled bad, which causes havoc, amongst society. e.g. terrorists
- Deviancy Amplification: increasing ones criminal behaviour.
- 'The Outsider' study - there is no act which is deviant itself. an act only becomes deviant when others apply the label to it.
- A deviant is someone who the label is applied to, the deviant behaviour is the labelling of that specific individual.
- different ways of explaining crime, helps us understand deviant or stigmatised behaviour.
- A deviant is someone who the label is applied to, the deviant behaviour is the labelling of that specific individual.
- deviance is determined by the location and the society and their own actions.
- Primary Deviance: violation of norms, that doesn't result in any long-term consequences, and it doesn't hurt self image.
- Secondary Deviance: a person's self-concept changes due to the label society gives to that individual.
- Master Status: a chief characteristic of an individual e.g. terrorist, *********.
- A.C. 3.2 Evaluate Sociological Theories.
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