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A Level Sociology revision: education, media, beliefs in society, crime & deviance, families & households etc
Jock Young Young (1971) looked into the effects of and the societal reaction to being labelled as deviant, and how it may lead to further deviant acts. He carried out research into the hippie marijuana users in Notting Hill during the 1960s. He Young that as the police began targeting a group of ‘hippies’, which […]
Therefore Becker is arguing deviant behaviour only becomes identified as deviant when an act it’s labelled as such. Those groups able to label acts as deviant are agents of social control, such as the mass media (deviancy amplification spiral) explains the media’s role in labelling process) and the police. Cicourel Cicourel (1968) looked at how […]
What are the basics of interactionism? (comes from symbolic interactionism) Blumer (1969) was a symbolic interactionist and had three basic views: Meanings come from the social interactions between people Society is created by how humans act together -> people make society, not society making people Therefore meanings are not fixed -> what’s viewed as crime […]
In contrast to positivism, interactionism presents a view of the world which emphasizes the role of human agency as opposed to the deterministic view of functionalist, subcultural and biological explanations. Rather than viewing human behaviour as determined by external forces, Mead argues ‘the self’ is a social construct and the way others see and react […]