Labeling as a form of symbolic violence
Sociological questions regarding deviating conducts center around inquiries related to why people act the way they act, transgressing norms accepted as normal. Not all deviating conducts are criminal. This classification derives from the rules that have been previously established by a social group...
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Cátedra B de Problemas Epistemológicos de la Psicología de la Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/heterocronias/article/view/31615 |
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| Sumario: | Sociological questions regarding deviating conducts center around inquiries related to why people act the way they act, transgressing norms accepted as normal. Not all deviating conducts are criminal. This classification derives from the rules that have been previously established by a social group and, as a consequence, who infringes the norm is labeled as deviating. In this work we intend to identify how the process of labeling takes place and how such classification depends on the rules a specific social group establishes. Our heuristics hold that the act of labeling is an act of symbolic violence since it uses the force of the symbolic power available in one field and it establishes it as a habitus. This work seeks to delineate both the field of struggle where the game of labeled and labelers is produced, and the way in which the labeling is socially reproduced. To achieve our goal, at a first instance, we reconstructed the labeling theoryproposed by Becker (1963) which puts deviation as a collective action. This theory takes into consideration the answers of others to the actions of the deviated as well as the way they are evaluated by others and how this affects prestige and rank. In a second instance, some concepts by Bourdieu (1989) are also reconstructed, such as symbolic violence, field And social reproduction in tandem with the labeling ́s theory. |
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