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Theoretical framework of The Children of Sex-Workers in Bangladesh

Labeling theory is closely related to social-construction and symbolic-interaction analysis (Macionis, John J.,et al, 2011). Labeling theory was developed by sociologists during the 1960s. Howard Saul Becker's book Outsiders was extremely influential in the development of this theory and its rise to popularity. Labeling theory holds that deviance is not inherent to an act, but instead focuses on the tendency of majorities to negatively label minorities or those seen as deviant from standard cultural norms. (Labeling theory: Social constructionism, Social stigma, Deinstitutionalization, George Herbert Mead, Howard S. Becker, Labeling).The theory is concerned with how the self-identity and behavior of individuals may be determined or influenced by the terms used to describe or classify them. It is associated with the concepts of self-fulfilling prophecy and stereotyping. The theory was prominent during the 1960s and 1970s, and some modified versions of the theory have developed and are still currently popular. Unwanted descriptors or categorizations - including terms related to deviance, disability or diagnosis of a mental disorder - may be rejected on the basis that they are merely "labels", often with attempts to adopt a more constructive language in its place. A stigma is defined as a powerfully negative label that changes a person's self-concept and social identity (Macionis, John J.,et al, 2011). Here researcher shows how CSW develop their behavior and self-identity as a part of social deviance where and Frank Tannenbaum’s theory of delinquent behavior and Howard Becker’s developmental career model suits. Erving Goffman’s theory of status symbols also discloses social bindings of CSW and Societal Reaction Theory of Edwin M. Lemert show the present situation of CSW.

We are all familiar with this function of personality in social organization. We express it in terms of leadership or in the vague term "personality." Where an office force is organized by a good manager, we speak of his personality as playing a part. Where the action of a man in the office is more or less dependent upon his dread of a reprimand or desire for approval from the manager himself, there the element of a personal relationship of selves to each other plays a considerable part, perhaps the dominant part, in the actual social organization. It plays, of course, the dominant part in the relation of children to their parents. It is found in the relation of parents to each other (George H. Mead,1934). In this study researcher tries to find out a relation between CSW and their personality construction as a way of mainstreaming in society through Mead’s self-consciousness and their awareness or sensing or conscious realization of this fact.