How do they study it?
On a micro scale
What do interactionalists not do?
They don’t generalise the whole population
What do Interactionalists study?
How people behave in small scale interactions
What do Interactionists look at?
Individual motives and behaviours
What do Interactionalists believe about deviance?
There’s no behaviours that are intrinsically deviant
Why do they believe that nothing is deviant?
Once you are labelled by society, you become deviant
To interactionists, what is deviant?
It’s not fixed, but interchangeable
What’s a good term to describe deviance?
A Social construct
What are definitions defined by?
Society
What are society’s reactions?
Who is witnessing the act, stereotypes of what is normal