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criminalize people based on an untrue label. This leads to incarceration and a lack of voting rights for those incarcerated. #so345

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13th is a prime example of how labeling is so influential and withstanding for years. Not only did the media depict African Americans as a group of criminals, but the white men were shown as this white savior group. This laid the framework for the war on drugs to #so345

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It has become a norm in lower-economic neighborhoods to have strict policing. The people living in these neighborhoods have developed strategies and have learned new social skills to look or act a particular way in front of the strict policing efforts #so345

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pressuring them to do so. The police academy has one norm on the acceptable force, and the different departments have their idea of acceptable force. The power of those veteran cops is a lot more influential in establishing the use of force. #so345

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Something that stood out to me about Hunt's article is how power and hierarchy play such a large role in the use of force. If a rookie cop sees a veteran, someone who is experienced in the field, use techniques against those taught in the academy, why wouldn't they try to #so345

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learn from someone more experienced than them? And in a lot of cases, I don't think people want to use excessive force, but it's the culture of being a street cop. If a cop is being encouraged to buy a more powerful gun or given one as a gift by their department, it's #so345

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By seeking out and joining these "self-help" groups, the group's norm is to fit in whatever behavior is deemed deviant by the collective society. By creating these groups, people are "fitting in" to their new environment, which would help with acceptance of self. #so345

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living in the suburbs, which is why this master status about gayness is formed. As humans we receive so much information from how people present themselves, and if it doesn't fit our idealized concept we don't associate with stereotypical characteristics #so345

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This article highlighted the importance of studying the mundane and how much you can learn from it. It was interesting because self-identity has such a big role in formation of individuals. Not only did the researcher explain the suburban gay identity as being mundane, but #so345

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so did the people he questioned. It shows how location has such a big impact on how you see yourself. People in New York express their sexual orientation differently than someone who would live in the midwest. Visibility to those living in New York is much greater than #so345

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created an excuse to why he was taking the scholarship. The college athlete didn't quite fit his established image in high school and he needed a way to justify it to his friends #so345

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Something that stood out to me in today's reading was the power dynamic of groups. Both the roughnecks and the saints would usually only commit delinquent acts in groups or pairs. The grouping of these boys brought power. The vulnerability of an individual is apparent #so345

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each other to commit these deviant acts based on their and the group's self image. Since they've defined themselves as the group that commits these acts, they must live to that image. One of the roughnecks got a scholarship and to dismiss it to his fellow groupmates, he #so345

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wouldn't ask for advice from someone you don't trust, you also wouldn't ask about people's perceptions of you if you didn't care what they thought. How people view you then goes into how you view yourself too. You may change to fit the idea of self-concept you have or want #so345

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Charles Horton Cooley wrote "the imagination of our appearance to the other person; the imagination of his judgment of that appearance". This reminds me of something my mom would say which was why would you ask for their advice if you wouldn't ask their opinion on your #so345

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outfit. Which was a way of telling me to not take advice from people you wouldn't ask about something small in your life. However, after reading chapter 7 of H&H, the question of appearance and how someone may view you is very important in overall self-concept. While you #so345

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that a person can control. #so345

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The choice to deviate seems to me again as a method of control. Chapter 6 discusses an instance where a person may want to try a deviant act because they have only heard secondhand about the experience of committing that act. To gain control and knowledge is to commit the #so345

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act yourself. The authors began to dive into how the actions committed or not committed create a self-image. A person wants to control how others see them by committing or not committing a deviant act. Committing a deviant act appears to be a selfish satisfaction and one #so345