The Labeling Theory

When committal to writing my assignment I direct to further my understanding on labeling hypothesis. The first word I choose based itself on how through attaching labels to individuals it changes societies perception of how physically charismatic they be. The author Kowner did a variety of studies to image if this guess was true. Kowner erect that non provided did labels of deviance effect how attractive an individual was but an individuals sexual urge and mental state were in addition considered. This left me movementing wether or not society did knock perverts little(prenominal) attractive which is a question I had not recognized myself asking antecedently when studying labeling theory. I found myself looking deeper into the lives of abnormals whilst reading this oblige and saw things from a distinguishable perspective that hadnt already been shown to me. I sight that when beingness taught about labeling theory I am simply just now asked to understand it. Nev er am I involve to format myself in the position of the deviant and this was something that whilst reading through the article I had most emphatically found. In particular, I discovered that in Japan where the experiment was based that the definition of deviance varied to what it is here in the UK.\nDue to this, many would question wether the bases of the study are relevant or even time-tested when trying to understand how labeling theory effects those here in the UK. But, As always at heart sociology I find myself required to look beyond what is asked of us and to see further meanings of the melodic theme in question to greater my understanding. I thought it was super interesting that when trying to see if their hypothesis of deviants being less attractive the researchers asked students to look at a set of photos and to account them according to their attractiveness. When doing so the researchers are seeing if the students stereotypical great deal of someone who is deemed to be deviant means that they are less attractive than someone who does not fulf...