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Examine the extent to which labelling can be cause deviancy
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Examine the extent to which labelling can be cause deviancy. Labelling can come from society having stereotypical views of people. They are usually negative, for example young, working- class boys are labelled, as being criminals and the word "hoodies" is negatively associated with them. This label leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy, were these young men act in the way they are labelled, so "hoodies" stand in streets intimidating passers-by's or go around mugging people. The interactionist perspective of deviance focus's on the interaction between deviants and those who define them as deviants, why they are defined as so, and the impact of this label on the individual. Becker (1963) said, " There's nothing intrinsically deviant about any act. Deviance is just a label." Thus social groups create deviancy by making rules and by labelling people as outsiders if they do not follow these rules. So deviancy is not a characteristic of certain behaviours...
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