Tag: interactionism
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An Interactionist Perspective on Drug Regulation
This video with Professor David Nutt on the bizarre way in which drugs are (miss) classified and (miss) regulated in the UK seems to be coming from an Interactionist point of view: In the video Professor Nutt discusses how authorities inappropriately label/ categories certain drugs as harmful when really they are not and then harsher…
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The Croydon Cat Killer: The Perfect Moral Panic for our Age?
Police may have just found the culprit behind a horrific moggy murder spree which started in Croydon in October 2015. Three years ago, the decapitated bodies of cats began be show up in various locations around Croydon, South London. They appeared to have been killed by blunt force trauma and then the bodies torn apart…
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Teacher Labelling and the self-fulfilling prophecy
Labelling theory holds that if a teacher labels a pupil a certain way, they will accept that label and it will become true.