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Society as Amplifier of Deviance

Society as Amplifier of Deviance. Labels and More. Halo Effect. a cognitive bias in which one  trait  influences expectations and evaluations of others in one's judgment of a person or object. Cooley and Mead. C. H. Cooley (1864-1929) G.H. Mead (1863–1931 ) 

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Society as Amplifier of Deviance

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  1. Society as Amplifier of Deviance Labels and More

  2. Halo Effect • a cognitive bias in which one trait influences expectations and evaluations of others in one's judgment of a person or object.

  3. Cooley and Mead • C. H. Cooley (1864-1929) • G.H. Mead (1863–1931)  • Humans interact via meaningful symbols • Self emerges in interaction • Provides the ideas that (1) how people react to you creates “reality,” (2) we play roles

  4. What is a “role” • Coherent set of behavioral expectations

  5. Social Status • A social status is a position in society • Social status is the prestige or honor associated with a position/role/identity

  6. History of Societal Reaction I • Tannenbaum "Dramatization Of Evil“ 1930s • “As a maladjustment that arises out of conflict between a group and the community at large.  The issue involved is not whether an individual is maladjusted to society, but the fact that his adjustment to a special group makes him maladjusted to the large society because the group he fits into is at war with society” (Tannenbaum 1938:8). • Act as evil  Actor as evil  Other behaviors of actor evil https://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/tannenbaum.htm

  7. History of Societal Reaction II • E Lemert (1912-1996) • Deviance = Reaction + Label • 1dev (original act)reactionaccept label2dev (act part) https://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/tannenbaum.htm

  8. History of Societal Reaction III • Becker, Erikson, Kitsuse (1960s) https://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/tannenbaum.htm

  9. Becker

  10. Natural History of Labeling Behavior mundane Something he did Notice Something I did Reaction Something he does Label act He’s different He’ll do it again Label actor Secondary Deviance Status Master Status Institutions Role

  11. Selection • One behavior comes to define the entire person

  12. Labels • Easy to apply • Hard to lose

  13. Labels • Can block opportunity and yield more deviance

  14. Labels • Can play into techniques of neutralization and cause more deviance

  15. Labels • Can generate subcultures and lead to more deviance

  16. Labels • Can lead to differential association and more deviance

  17. Labels • Can block access to legitimate means for achieving legitimate goals

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