by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Labelling & Deviance
PART A Working on your own, quickly categorise how each of the following acts are seen in the United Kingdom today. Which ones are: (a) seen as deviant AND are illegal? (b) seen as deviant but are NOT illegal? (c) illegal, but are not necessarily seen as deviant? Rape...
by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Labelling & Deviance
The concept of labelling has been used not only in explaining crime and deviance, but also in other areas of sociology. Suggest ways in which this concept might apply elsewhere, using examples from education, health, age and ethnicity. Who is likely to be labelled and...
by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Labelling & Deviance
Jock Young’s study ‘The Drugtakers’ gives us an example of an amplification spiral. He shows how the interactions between a group of hippies and the police produce more crime rather than less. Although the hippies’ drug-taking is initially low, media pressure leads...
by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Labelling & Deviance
Deviance is what is seen and defined as such by others; it is not the act itself that is deviant. False. Secondary deviance is the result of societal reaction. The police, the courts, schools, religious groups, families, the media, peer groups. Once a person is...
