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Question - Read the article below on one of the most famous studies in sociology - William Chambliss' study of the Saints and the Roughnecks, two groups of students from the same high school (Hanibal High), both engaging in similar disruptive activities--minor law-breaking and pranks, but are labeled and treated very differently by the school and townspeople, resulting in drastically different long-lasting outcomes for the respective groups.
1. Applying the concepts of the labeling theory.
2. The two groups' backgrounds--families, incomes, neighbourhoods.
3. How the townspeople looked at and treated the two groups.
4. The two groups' reactions to the differing perceptions and treatments, and the impacts of the differing treatments on the groups' self-identities, behaviors, and long-term prospects
5. Your view on the labeling theory.
Chambliss, William J. - Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory.