I thought it was interesting when it brought up the point of are the new laws creating deviant behavior. In such cases, I agree that this statement is totally true. Especially in adolescents, just imagine what it was like to do something that was frowned upon when you were younger. For example, imagine you were in school and wanted to cause attention to yourself. I would usually say or do something funny in class to provoke a teachers scowl, and all the kids would laugh at me for being stupid. This is the same concept, if we were to legalize pot or other types of "harmless" activities, I strongly believe this would lower the effect of outsiders in society. This would lessen the amount of outlaws, and prove to be more effective in policing as a whole. No longer would police focus on small time pot dealers, but instead would focus more on the heinous crimes. These crimes include murder, rape, theft, and different types of burglary. BenRoethlisberger123
Its true though if we were to decriminalize little things for example smoking pot. Cause that's just a chain reaction once that's done business are created to sell pot witch than creates jobs and so on with taxing it and what not. That would insure that the police or the DEA could focus on more important things like theft or smuggling kilos of heroin. wreked123
I on the other hand believe that legalizing pot is only going to cause problems. What about DUI in regards to smoking marijuana? Until officials can test effectively and efficiently, it shouldn't even be a debated topic. These type of "harmless" crimes also create jobs for police agencies. Nine out of ten drug addicts admit that marijuana was their gateway drug to harder substances. If one looks more into these statistics they will start to realize it will cause more trouble than it will fix. Bassfishing123
Agreed for sure!!! The D.E.A war on marijuana is a war that they will never win. Why waste time on something that its a never ending battle! Soon enough it will be legal in all 50 states. I believe it is really petty and many people behind bars for selling it should be free as they are not rapist, murderers, and a robber. But with society coming into play, they will say " he was a good for nothing pothead", when in reality pot is not a bad thing. But to label someone and throw them in jail witrh MURDERERS, RAPIST, MOLESTERS, ROBBERS, etc! But labeling theory does bother me. We are all a different person and we all have different views. But we get viewed as wierd if we do something out of the norm because it is not accepted by them . rugby123
Its interesting to think that society judges what we consider deviant or bad behavior, not in the norm of society. To think that murder or rap or even stealing could be considered an average day to day thing that is normal and for things that are actually normal day to day things for some like getting in a fight in a hockey game or flipping someone off cause they made you mad could land you 20 or so more years locked up for something so petty because we consider it petty. The idea on top of the labeling theory that Piliavin and Briar came up with saying police use stereotypical decisions to bother someone and pat them down ect was spot on cause it is still done today and will always be done. wreked123
People that are primary deviant will always face day to day problems. Whether or not their deviant activity's lead them to prison or not they will always struggle with trying not to be deviant because of the way they are labeled by others. If someone knows their neighbor WAS a burglar, they will always be labeled as a thief from people that know. This in return can result in the person becoming even more deviant because society wont accept them in. An example of this is in prisons, inmates learn more deviant activity's from others that are deviant. It is common for people to want friends and if their friends are deviant, they will follow suit. The labeling theory in regards to police using stereotypical decisions to search cars, frisk, ect. will always be used because of the type of activities the people are involved in that fit the stereotypical profile. Bassfishing123
If I knew my neighbor WAS a thief, I would never leave my door unlocked. I would always try to leave lights on in my house if I was not home. I have lived next to a thief, and I was afraid that my belongings were going to come up missing. They never did, but whenever something did come up missing in the neighborhood, that person was always blamed. FBI123
In my eyes, I see labeling theory as stereotyping. Like in High School, the students that usually get in trouble are the students that have gotten in trouble their whole life. They back talk to their teachers, and get sent to the deans office to be taken care of. But on the other hand, you have the students that do not get in trouble even when they back talk because they come from a more respected family that may or may not have ties with the school. The students may just get a scowl from the teacher and he or she will just continue teaching, or the teacher may not even do anything. The student that gets in trouble, will get in trouble almost everyday, or they may drop out and either get their G.E.D. or nothing at all. People that steal once or twice get labeled as being a thief for the rest of their lives. Since they are already being labeled as being a thief, they think " I'm already a thief, so I must make it count, until I get caught." FBI123
Everything you said is true. I believe stereotyping is the biggest part of labeling theory but I believe you have to remember deviance. And the role it plays in with stereotyping aspect of labeling theory. To go one step further you need to look at other aspects of why and how that person became that stereotype and deviant. Jfl123
You bring up a good point, I think the labeling theory does a lot of stereotyping. Many of these theories categorize people, either for better or for worse. If only we didn't put people into categories, but instead saw the potential they have. If we looked at everyone this way, I believe this world would be a much better place. BenRoethlisberger123
This video is very interesting because it talks about labeling theory. It also defines what deviant behavior is and how people think in those acts. To talk about labeling theory it speaks about stereotyping people, which means judging people by the way, they are showing themselves not the offenses they have committed against society. This speaks to the inequality of how the government agencies view society and I don’t just mean police department I mean everyone. And this leads me to my next point of shaming the disintegrative and reiterative shaming talks about act are a bad thing and not the person. Disintegrative talks about crime and the person doing it are both to blame. Finally to expand on the topic of deviance there are two main types primary and secondary deviance and primary speaks about when its committed that person doesn’t see themselves as don’t something wrong. When secondary is being committed talks about the social aspect of that deviant act than the act it self. Jfl123
labeling theory can stem off too being stereotypes. Once again SOCIETY decides what is right and wrong and judge everything a person does. If society continuously bashes on you, you begin to create a self concept of being a bad person. Being labeled a druggie, criminal, etc. will begin to take an affect you as you think to yourself "Im a criminal". Once you have a set mind of being a criminal, you do criminal things will eventually land you in jail prison. Then your mindset of yourself being a thief will grow as you will be treated like one and live like one. Especially when you are surrounded by more and more deviants as they can give you tips on being a better "deviant". If society didn’t label any small issues wrong, there wouldn’t be the labeling of people who commit small misdemeanors. "Don't hate the sinner, hate the sin." Not all people who commit crimes are truly "bad" people. Yea stealing is a bad thing, I am not saying it is right. But one must understand that not all of us are fortunate to have some of the luxuries that we do. When you are poor and have no food, your mind tells you to look for it and obtain it anyway possible. Someone wouldn’t hesitate to walk in a grocery store and steal a couple cans of soup or ramon noodles etc. But he would be labeled as a criminal and frowned upon because he was trying to survive and or feed his family.
I agree with you when you say that some crimes that are committed can be somewhat justified. A lot of people in this day and age like to stick there nose in everyone's business. In a situation where someone steals to feed his or her family, some people might label the police officer as bad while another party argues over the offender being bad. It is important that we try to be optimistic. Cowboy123
The labeling theory talks about how a person is not deviant, but how society characterizes them that way. He states in the video that if you label someone in society than they are more likely to be that way because people are encouraging them to be. Most people become someone they are not. It doesn’t matter where you go in life, someone is going to be there to characterize you as someone who has no intention of doing a crime or being “labeled”. I’m honestly not surprised that trying to decrease labeling theory has failed. People in society all have bad habits and once you are around that person for so long, others begin to pick up on it. CSI 123
I think labeling theory can relate best to stereotyping. I think that stereotyping is what is wrong with this country. People will stereotype by a lot of things and it isn't just race. It can be gender, tattoos or where we are from. I think the media influences all of this. It has a way of taking one person and labeling that as the whole group for whatever they stand for. When we watch the news more recently it will be a big debate about cops being irrational with there force or african americans being criminals. When in reality, both sides have there good people and there bad people. It is wrong to label. Cowboy123
I agree, stereotyping causes unnecessary biases, that causes more labeling in the long run. if this country was less biased, labeling wouldn't be as big of an issue that it is now. As the video said, self-fulfilling prophecy will occur and people will be more likely to be delinquent and commit acts that are delinquent or criminal. Silverado123
I find the video very intresting. His topics were very informative and very detailed.The two topics i thought, grabed my attention more were ,disintegrative shaming and reintegrative.shaming.I like how the terms were broken down in the examples he gave.Both topics i thought were very open detailed and gave really great definition. I also liked how he discussed the topic on the Evaluation of labelling theory, As well as the example he gave, the offender given a kind of victim status, thus ignoring the real victims of crime. The example he gave was 100% true. In my opinion , the law .focus more on people who did absoulutly nothing at all then the actual victim. socialbutterfly
Labeling theory is a source of social control in my opinion. Labeling theory as explained in the video is a construct formed from laws that society creates. Whenever society creates new laws, they create new outcasts that would be labeled as deviants. A great example of an outcast in this theory would be lets say the authorities create a curfew for society. Some people are naturally night owls. They are people who function better at night, therefore they would be more likely to break curfews to do what they do at night. Also the fact that biases occur is a little upsetting in my opinion. There is no need to use bias based on race, gender, etc that is used to create these outcasts, and in the long term used to label delinquents and criminals. Labeling someone causes them to think they are delinquent, so hey they might as well be delinquent since they think they are. This is an awful way of deciding and telling someone that they are delinquent, it is completely unnecessary and biased. These labeling issues should be dealt with and terminated. Silverado123
I thought it was interesting when it brought up the point of are the new laws creating deviant behavior. In such cases, I agree that this statement is totally true. Especially in adolescents, just imagine what it was like to do something that was frowned upon when you were younger. For example, imagine you were in school and wanted to cause attention to yourself. I would usually say or do something funny in class to provoke a teachers scowl, and all the kids would laugh at me for being stupid. This is the same concept, if we were to legalize pot or other types of "harmless" activities, I strongly believe this would lower the effect of outsiders in society. This would lessen the amount of outlaws, and prove to be more effective in policing as a whole. No longer would police focus on small time pot dealers, but instead would focus more on the heinous crimes. These crimes include murder, rape, theft, and different types of burglary. BenRoethlisberger123
ReplyDeleteIts true though if we were to decriminalize little things for example smoking pot. Cause that's just a chain reaction once that's done business are created to sell pot witch than creates jobs and so on with taxing it and what not. That would insure that the police or the DEA could focus on more important things like theft or smuggling kilos of heroin.
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I on the other hand believe that legalizing pot is only going to cause problems. What about DUI in regards to smoking marijuana? Until officials can test effectively and efficiently, it shouldn't even be a debated topic. These type of "harmless" crimes also create jobs for police agencies. Nine out of ten drug addicts admit that marijuana was their gateway drug to harder substances. If one looks more into these statistics they will start to realize it will cause more trouble than it will fix.
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Agreed for sure!!!
DeleteThe D.E.A war on marijuana is a war that they will never win. Why waste time on something that its a never ending battle! Soon enough it will be legal in all 50 states. I believe it is really petty and many people behind bars for selling it should be free as they are not rapist, murderers, and a robber. But with society coming into play, they will say " he was a good for nothing pothead", when in reality pot is not a bad thing. But to label someone and throw them in jail witrh MURDERERS, RAPIST, MOLESTERS, ROBBERS, etc! But labeling theory does bother me. We are all a different person and we all have different views. But we get viewed as wierd if we do something out of the norm because it is not accepted by them .
rugby123
Its interesting to think that society judges what we consider deviant or bad behavior, not in the norm of society. To think that murder or rap or even stealing could be considered an average day to day thing that is normal and for things that are actually normal day to day things for some like getting in a fight in a hockey game or flipping someone off cause they made you mad could land you 20 or so more years locked up for something so petty because we consider it petty. The idea on top of the labeling theory that Piliavin and Briar came up with saying police use stereotypical decisions to bother someone and pat them down ect was spot on cause it is still done today and will always be done.
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People that are primary deviant will always face day to day problems. Whether or not their deviant activity's lead them to prison or not they will always struggle with trying not to be deviant because of the way they are labeled by others. If someone knows their neighbor WAS a burglar, they will always be labeled as a thief from people that know. This in return can result in the person becoming even more deviant because society wont accept them in. An example of this is in prisons, inmates learn more deviant activity's from others that are deviant. It is common for people to want friends and if their friends are deviant, they will follow suit. The labeling theory in regards to police using stereotypical decisions to search cars, frisk, ect. will always be used because of the type of activities the people are involved in that fit the stereotypical profile.
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If I knew my neighbor WAS a thief, I would never leave my door unlocked. I would always try to leave lights on in my house if I was not home. I have lived next to a thief, and I was afraid that my belongings were going to come up missing. They never did, but whenever something did come up missing in the neighborhood, that person was always blamed.
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In my eyes, I see labeling theory as stereotyping. Like in High School, the students that usually get in trouble are the students that have gotten in trouble their whole life. They back talk to their teachers, and get sent to the deans office to be taken care of. But on the other hand, you have the students that do not get in trouble even when they back talk because they come from a more respected family that may or may not have ties with the school. The students may just get a scowl from the teacher and he or she will just continue teaching, or the teacher may not even do anything. The student that gets in trouble, will get in trouble almost everyday, or they may drop out and either get their G.E.D. or nothing at all.
ReplyDeletePeople that steal once or twice get labeled as being a thief for the rest of their lives. Since they are already being labeled as being a thief, they think " I'm already a thief, so I must make it count, until I get caught."
FBI123
Everything you said is true. I believe stereotyping is the biggest part of labeling theory but I believe you have to remember deviance. And the role it plays in with stereotyping aspect of labeling theory. To go one step further you need to look at other aspects of why and how that person became that stereotype and deviant.
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You bring up a good point, I think the labeling theory does a lot of stereotyping. Many of these theories categorize people, either for better or for worse. If only we didn't put people into categories, but instead saw the potential they have. If we looked at everyone this way, I believe this world would be a much better place. BenRoethlisberger123
ReplyDeleteThis video is very interesting because it talks about labeling theory. It also defines what deviant behavior is and how people think in those acts. To talk about labeling theory it speaks about stereotyping people, which means judging people by the way, they are showing themselves not the offenses they have committed against society. This speaks to the inequality of how the government agencies view society and I don’t just mean police department I mean everyone. And this leads me to my next point of shaming the disintegrative and reiterative shaming talks about act are a bad thing and not the person. Disintegrative talks about crime and the person doing it are both to blame. Finally to expand on the topic of deviance there are two main types primary and secondary deviance and primary speaks about when its committed that person doesn’t see themselves as don’t something wrong. When secondary is being committed talks about the social aspect of that deviant act than the act it self.
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labeling theory can stem off too being stereotypes. Once again SOCIETY decides what is right and wrong and judge everything a person does. If society continuously bashes on you, you begin to create a self concept of being a bad person. Being labeled a druggie, criminal, etc. will begin to take an affect you as you think to yourself "Im a criminal". Once you have a set mind of being a criminal, you do criminal things will eventually land you in jail prison. Then your mindset of yourself being a thief will grow as you will be treated like one and live like one. Especially when you are surrounded by more and more deviants as they can give you tips on being a better "deviant". If society didn’t label any small issues wrong, there wouldn’t be the labeling of people who commit small misdemeanors. "Don't hate the sinner, hate the sin." Not all people who commit crimes are truly "bad" people. Yea stealing is a bad thing, I am not saying it is right. But one must understand that not all of us are fortunate to have some of the luxuries that we do. When you are poor and have no food, your mind tells you to look for it and obtain it anyway possible. Someone wouldn’t hesitate to walk in a grocery store and steal a couple cans of soup or ramon noodles etc. But he would be labeled as a criminal and frowned upon because he was trying to survive and or feed his family.
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I agree with you when you say that some crimes that are committed can be somewhat justified. A lot of people in this day and age like to stick there nose in everyone's business. In a situation where someone steals to feed his or her family, some people might label the police officer as bad while another party argues over the offender being bad. It is important that we try to be optimistic. Cowboy123
DeleteThe labeling theory talks about how a person is not deviant, but how society characterizes them that way. He states in the video that if you label someone in society than they are more likely to be that way because people are encouraging them to be. Most people become someone they are not. It doesn’t matter where you go in life, someone is going to be there to characterize you as someone who has no intention of doing a crime or being “labeled”. I’m honestly not surprised that trying to decrease labeling theory has failed. People in society all have bad habits and once you are around that person for so long, others begin to pick up on it. CSI 123
ReplyDeleteI think labeling theory can relate best to stereotyping. I think that stereotyping is what is wrong with this country. People will stereotype by a lot of things and it isn't just race. It can be gender, tattoos or where we are from. I think the media influences all of this. It has a way of taking one person and labeling that as the whole group for whatever they stand for. When we watch the news more recently it will be a big debate about cops being irrational with there force or african americans being criminals. When in reality, both sides have there good people and there bad people. It is wrong to label. Cowboy123
ReplyDeleteI agree, stereotyping causes unnecessary biases, that causes more labeling in the long run. if this country was less biased, labeling wouldn't be as big of an issue that it is now. As the video said, self-fulfilling prophecy will occur and people will be more likely to be delinquent and commit acts that are delinquent or criminal.
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I find the video very intresting. His topics were very informative and very detailed.The two topics i thought, grabed my attention more were ,disintegrative shaming and reintegrative.shaming.I like how the terms were broken down in the examples he gave.Both topics i thought were very open detailed and gave really great definition. I also liked how he discussed the topic on the Evaluation of labelling theory, As well as the example he gave, the offender given a kind of victim status, thus ignoring the real victims of crime. The example he gave was 100% true. In my opinion , the law .focus more on people who did absoulutly nothing at all then the actual victim. socialbutterfly
ReplyDeleteLabeling theory is a source of social control in my opinion. Labeling theory as explained in the video is a construct formed from laws that society creates. Whenever society creates new laws, they create new outcasts that would be labeled as deviants. A great example of an outcast in this theory would be lets say the authorities create a curfew for society. Some people are naturally night owls. They are people who function better at night, therefore they would be more likely to break curfews to do what they do at night. Also the fact that biases occur is a little upsetting in my opinion. There is no need to use bias based on race, gender, etc that is used to create these outcasts, and in the long term used to label delinquents and criminals. Labeling someone causes them to think they are delinquent, so hey they might as well be delinquent since they think they are. This is an awful way of deciding and telling someone that they are delinquent, it is completely unnecessary and biased. These labeling issues should be dealt with and terminated.
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