Labeling Theory

"Devils like beauty are in the eyes of the viewer, there is no essential deviation in human behavior, because some people have successfully marked it." - JL Simmons Introduction Label theory Born from the influence of Cooley, Mead, Tannenbaum, Lemert, it originated in the background of the 20th century. However, Edwin Lemelt is widely believed to be the producer and founder of the original label theory.

Label theory was created by Howard Becker in 1963. Label theory believes that people become criminals when tagged and when accepting tags as individual identities. Key concepts of label theory include primary and secondary bias, traceability and expected labeling, and the importance of prejudice. Look at these concepts and take a look at some examples. Label theory emphasizes that deviation is a relative term. In this view, people react abnormally to react to behavior, not for actions themselves. There are two types of bias as part of this theory. The main deviation is a plot of the deviation from the behavior many people are participating in. A secondary deviation is that someone does something out of this abnormal behavior, which creates a negative social label that changes his own self-concept and social identity. This negative label is called shame

In sociology, label theory is a departure perspective, according to which it is marked as "deviant" and involves people in abnormal behavior. Label theory, born from the study of Howard Becker in the 1960s, explains why people's behavior conflicts with social norms. For example, a teenager living in an urban area where the gang frequently visits may be labeled as a gang member. As a result, youth may start acting like a gang member or become a member. Sometimes people tagged incorporate tags into their self concepts (when a teenager marked as a gang member starts to see himself as a gang member). Some researchers think that there is a high possibility that people with low social status are classified as deviating.