Truth in labeling: Are descriptions all we have?

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The present article draws on some parallels between pragmatism and the interactionist sociology of deviance to discuss the quest for liberatory consequences often associated with the Labeling Approach (LA). Both pragmatism and the LA exhibit a tension between their antifoundationalist nominalism and their liberatory meliorism. This tension revolves around the question if the insight that "descriptions are all we have" leads to a possibility to change these descriptions. While many proponents of the LA have thought so, antidualist formulations of pragmatism have mellowed this hope without destroying it: Descriptions can always change, but it is rarely antifoundationalist theory that changes them.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftDeviant Behavior
Jahrgang32
Ausgabenummer7
Seiten (von - bis)653-675
Anzahl der Seiten23
ISSN0163-9625
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 08.2011
Extern publiziertJa

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