Question

Answer the following questions after reading The Saints and The Roughnecks article. Explain labeling or social reaction theory. Explain self-fulfilling prophecy. Discuss how labeling influenced the lives of these boys and resulted in self-fulfilling prophecy. Give specific examples. What role did economics or social class play in the labeling? Compare your high-school experience with those at Hannibal High. In what ways did your "reputation" either protect or harm you. Think of a time when you were labeled negatively or positively by an authority figure, a parent, or someone else significant to you. How powerful was the label? Did it influence how others responded to you? Did it affect your perceptions of and feelings about yourself Give an example. If it was negative did you do something to try to counteract the label or its effects Did you eventually overcome, transform or shed the label? How and why?

Answer 1

Summary- The social reaction theory explain the behaviour of society, varies according to socio-economic development. High socio-economic position stands for privileges and increase the social value.

1-Self-fulfilling prophecy belongs to the label and the privileges provided by society, your personality also influenced by these labels.

2-High middle class families viewed as good person while they often involved in truancy, theft and vandalism, on the other hand low middle class kids have to prove themselves at every moment of life.

In the discussion, the saint belong to upper middle class so that he enjoyed many social privileges. The Chambliss found that the boy’s social class had a lot to do with how they were perceived.

            If we compare both groups we found lower middle class and upper middle class are labels and they effect the privileges of boys for same work and ideas.

The economics and social class plays very important role in the process of labelling because the view of society bond with these labels rather than reality, every label give some special befits which justified by social structure.

My experience was kind of different because I saw the problems which is been always occur during finding the place and social value in groups as well as community.

Every label has some pros and cons, when we meet anyone they try to know about family background as well as socio-economic status after that they define the label or place of you in society.

If you belong to higher class you will some advantages like a special treatment by society but some time you face disadvantages like adjustment does not seems possible to every group or social structure. Label always effects the perception and cognition, a high class student cannot understand the problem of low class so that the perception to social structure change.

Every moment of life in society we can feel the effects of labelling, some label provide us special position in society while others can be cause to suffer in society.