Labelling theory claims that deviance and conformity results not so much from what people do but from how others respond to those actions, it highlights social responses to crime and deviance Macionis and Plummer, (2005).Deviant behaviour is therefore socially constructed. This essay will describe i...
The Labelling of Deviance: Evaluating a Perspectivedoi:10.2307/3340498Joel BestWalter Gove
13 Sexuality Research and Social Policy (2021) 18:855–868 Queering Legal Norms and Labels In the latter half of the twentieth century, new labels have emerged to characterise "homosexuality" and "prostitu- tion" which have—depending on one's perspective— been defined as either affirmative...
This conceptual shift had a significant impact on the way social science scholarship approached drug use, with qualitative traditions of the sociology of deviance entering an ‘appreciative’ turn in drug research (Matza, 1969). Since the introduction of the labelling perspective, social science schola...