z lektur - Thomas J. Scheff

1. Residual rule-breaking arises from fundamentally diverse sources.
2. Relative to the rate of treated mental illness, the rate of unrecorded residual rule-breaking is extremely high.
3. Most residual rule-breaking is "denied" and is of transitory significance.
4. Stereotyped imagery of mental disorder is learned in early childhood.
5. The stereotypes of insanity are continually reaffirmed, inadvertently, in ordinary social interaction.
6. Labeled deviants may be rewarded for playing the stereotyped deviant role.
7. Labeled deviants are punished when they attempt the return to conventional roles.
8. In the crisis occurring when a residual rule-breaker is publicly labeled, the deviant is highly suggestible, and may accept the proffered role of the insane as the only alternative.
9. Among residual rule-breakers, labeling is the single most important cause of careers of residual deviance.

[Being Mentally Ill]