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deviance
Behaviours, attitudes, and demeanours that differ significantly from the norms, standards, ethics, and expectations of society and are often classed as criminal or anti‐social.
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Dictionary of the Social Sciences
A strong version of labeling theory that suggests that media coverage and police action not only distort perceptions about the
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The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine (3 ed.)
Process, often performed by the mass media, in which the extent and seriousness of deviant behaviour, such as football hooliganism, is exaggerated. The effect is to create a greater ...
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football hooliganism
The Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc.) Act 1985 contains finable offences of possessing alcohol, being drunk, or causing or permitting the carriage of alcohol on trains and vehicles capable of ...
labelling theory
The hypothesis, which originated in sociology in the 1950s, that the social attribution of deviant identities to individuals or groups is a self-fulfilling prophecy leading to the amplification of ...
moral panic
A mass movement based on the false or exaggerated perception that some cultural behaviour or group of people is dangerously deviant and poses a threat to society's values and interests. Moral panics ...
societal reaction
In the labelling theory of deviance, the societal reaction refers to the range of formal and informal agencies of social control—including the law, media, police, and family—which, through their ...
sociology of deviance
Commonsensically, deviance has been seen as an attribute, as something inherent in a certain kind of behaviour or person: the delinquent, the homosexual, the mentally ill, and so forth. Indeed, this ...
