The Labeling Perspective Three Interrelated Concerns: 1)Social-Historical Development of Labels 2)Application of labels 3)Practical Consequences of Labeling Process

The Labeling Perspective Mead’s Psychology of Punitive Justice Tannenbaum’s Crime and Community Lemert’s Social Pathology Becker’s The Outsiders and The Other Side Why was this Perspective so popular in the 1960s?

The Labeling Perspective Labeling Perspective has Different Focus from Other Theories of Deviance Becker’s Issues with the Process moral entrepeneurs Becker’s Sequential Model of Deviance Deviance as a Master Status

The Labeling Perspective Primary and Secondary Deviance Labeling Amplifies Deviance Retrospective Interpretation Goffman’s Stigma So Why Do We Label?

The Labeling Perspective Can You Recover from a Label? What About Rejecting a Label? Notion of Power: Links to Conflict Theory