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Labeling Theory
Title: Labeling Theory
Category: Law & Government
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Labeling Theory
Deviance, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder. There is nothing inherently deviant in any human act, something is deviant only because some people have been successful in labelling it so. J. L Simmons The definition of the situation implies that if you define a situation as real, it is real only in its consequences.
INTRODUCTION
Labelling theory, stemming from the influences of Cooley, Mead, Tannenbaum, and Lemert, has its origins somewhere within …showed first 75 words of 3397 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 3397 total…A. (1972). The Poverty of the Sociology of Deviance: Nuts, Sluts and Perverts. Mead, H. G. (1962). Mind, Self, and Society: From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviourist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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Schur, E. M. (1971). Labelling Deviant Behaviour: Its Sociological Implications. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Simmons, J. L (1969). Deviants. Berkeley, California
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