Interactionism and crime AQA SOCIOLOGY

Interactionism looks at..

• big groups and their actions

• small groups and their interactions

• everyone

• Functionalists

____________________ is an interactionist

Deviant career is...

• the process of someone gaining a master status and joining a deviant subculture

• the process of inadequate socialisation

• the process of getting a job that people might not like

• deviant people

Interactionists focus on...

• Society

• Labelling

• Friends

• Family

Interactionists believe...

• People's reaction to things do not matter

• Deviant behaviour is based on the law

• Crime is based on what people like and don't like in society

• Deviant behaviour only exists when the act has been labelled as deviant by people

What is the term for when people become the label given to them?

Self-denying prophecy is when..

• someone accepts the label given to them

• someone rejects the label given to them

• someone acts like the best version of themselves