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Explain the labeling theory of deviance.
 
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Most people's behavior is shaped by cultural rules._____ is the practice of marrying within one's own group.
 
  a. Exogamy b. Homogamy
 c. Endogamy d. Heterogamy



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Labeling theory states that deviance is a socially constructed process in which social

control agencies designate certain people as deviants, and they, in turn, come to accept

the label placed upon them and begin to act accordingly. Based on the symbolic

interactionist theory of Cooley and Mead, labeling theory focuses on the labels that

people are given in their interactions with others. Becker argues that the rules for what

constitutes deviant or conventional behavior are made by moral entrepreneurs who use

their own perspectives on right and wrong to establish the rules by which they expect

other people to live. Moral entrepreneurs have greater power than others and the

ability to label nonconformists deviant. Lemert outlined three stages in the labeling

process: (1) primary deviance refers to the initial act of rule breaking (2) secondary

deviance occurs when a person who has been labeled deviant accepts that new identity

and continues the deviant behavior and (3) tertiary deviance occurs when a person

who has been labeled a deviant seeks to normalize the behavior by relabeling it as

nondeviant.

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