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Labeling theory (or social reaction theory) is concerned with how the self-identity and behavior of an individual is influenced (or created) by how that individual is categorized and described by others in their society. Originating in sociology and...


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Adolescence
Control theory, labeling theory, and the delivery of services for drug abuse to adolescents.
03/22/1997: 8,913 words, approx. 30 pages
This article uses panel data and multiple regression of follow-up on baseline variables to test hypotheses that over time: (1) control theory variables are related to decreases in drug use and to each other, (2) labeling theory variables regarding drug use are related to...
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Sociology of Religion
Despicable deviants: labelling theory and the polemic of the pastorals.
12/22/1997: 4,702 words, approx. 16 pages
The paper proposes that an adequate historical-critical understanding of the Pastoral Epistles -- 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus -- can be advanced by using sensitizing concepts from the labelling theory variant of symbolic interactionism. In the three epistles, the technique of the "status...
 


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Labeling, Law, and America's Drug Policy
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Describes the correlations between Sociology's Labeling Theory (Becker) and American Drug Policy.


 

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