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Reading Discussion 8

Reading Discussion 8

Q Go back and review all of the postings on the Article Summaries: Chapter 8. You should be able to gain a pretty solid understanding of each of the articles by reading over the multiple summaries and analyses. Please create a post that answers the following questions: Most of us have been labeled in some way or another in our lives (though, perhaps, not quite as dramatically as in these texts). In what ways was your experience with being labeled similar to what happened in these texts? In what ways was it different? How do these examples help you understand the core ideas of this chapter? How do they connect? What can we learn about our deviance, and how our society shapes deviance from these texts? Please provide at least two substantial comments on your classmates' responses that seek to deepen the analysis or provide some other kind of connection. Try looking for answers that challenge what you thought before or make you think of something new! Your initial post and comments have the same due date.

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Labeling people is elementary and common. My personal experience with labeling has been through the internet. Labeling someone by seeing internet posts is very easy. I have faced it many times where my internet posts and pictures have been used to label me. A few years back, I used to provide my views on social topics on the internet. But it has often happened that when the ideas do not match the maximum people, they have labeled me rude and illogical. So, as mentioned in the article, “Digital Degradation: Stigma Management in the Internet Age,” the internet has become a massive medium to label others.