What are the effects of labelling? Crime and Deviance Sociology

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    What are the effects of labelling theory?
    Labelling theory is also examining the effects of labelling. For example Lemert (1972) states that by labelling certain people as deviant, society actually encourages them to become more deviant.
    Lemert’s primary and secondary deviance
    Edwin Lemert (1951) distinguishes between primary and secondary deviance.
    Primary deviance
    Deviant acts that have not been publicly labelled.
    They can have many causes and are often trivial and mostly go uncaught.
    Those individuals that commit them do not see themselves as deviant and can easily rationalise them away.
    Primary deviance has little significance for the person's self-concept or status.
    Secondary deviance
    This is deviance that has been labelled and is a result from societal reaction i.e. from labelling
    labelling an individual as an offender can involve stigmatising, humiliating and excluding them from normal society.
    once an individual has been given a label, others may see the offender only in the terms of that label.
    This becomes the person's master status or controlling identity - overriding all others.
    Example
    two married men have an affair with another woman. One of them gets caught, his wife find out about it, so does his friends, neighbours and co-workers. This man is no longer a colleague, father, neighbour or friend. He is now an adulterer, someone you cannot trust, a breaker of families. In short an outsider.

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  • @DonVHaley
    @DonVHaley 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Outstanding Job!
    Professor Don Haley

  • @Shenieta
    @Shenieta 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    very helpful!