Answer the following questions after reading The Saints and TheRoughnecks article. Explain labeling or social reaction theory.Explain self-fulfilling prophecy. Discuss how labeling influencedthe lives of these boys and resulted in self-fulfilling prophecy.Give specific examples. What role did economics or social classplay in the labeling? Compare your high-school experience withthose at Hannibal High. In what ways did your \"reputation\" eitherprotect or harm you. Think of a time when you were labelednegatively or positively by an authority figure, a parent, orsomeone else significant to you. How powerful was the label? Did itinfluence how others responded to you? Did it affect yourperceptions of and feelings about yourself Give an example. If itwas negative did you do something to try to counteract the label orits effects Did you eventually overcome, transform or shed thelabel? How and why?
