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Labelling is heavily influenced by ...
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Symbolic interactionism
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Labelling theorists focused on what?
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The labelling process experienced by individuals
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What did labelling theorists label at the macro level of analysis?
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How moral crusaders generated laws and ideas about justice
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What were labelling theorists unable to explain?
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How laws apply to some but not to others
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In 1970s and the 1980s, neo-marxists and conflict theorists believe what about labelling theorists?
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Largely ignored the context in which crime and deviance take place
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What does labelling theorist ignore?
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An important macro level force: capitalism
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What did Liazos work on?
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Sociology of nuts, sluts, and perverts
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16 deviance texts examined and 3 biases located largely within labelling theory
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1. attempt to humanize "deviants"
2. sentationalism 3. top dogs left untreated |
Wrote extensively about inequality, particularly during the capitalist mode of production
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Marx
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Argued that capitalist created the divide between the proletariat (working class) and the burgeousie (corporate elite), and that it was responsible for deviance
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Marx
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Who owns the means of production?
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Bougeoisie
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Extracts surplus value from the proletariat
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The bourgeousie
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Surplus value is similar to __
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Profit
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__ in society is derive from wealth accumulaton.
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Power
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How did the conflict perspective define deviant?
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- in relation to the economy.
- It makes sense to label some people as deviant |