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casperchen82

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How does labeling one as deviant reinforce the so-called deviance?
 
  a. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, thereby proving the person is a deviant after all.
  b. Once labeled a deviant, an individual's actions are more closely scrutinized by others, improving the odds that the person will be caught in further acts of deviance.
  c. The person consciously accepts the premise of those in social control.
  d. Deviance becomes a form of social acceptance, that is, what society expects of the deviant.

Question 2

__________ is the act of arriving and settling in a place.
 
  a. Emigration
  b. Assimilation
  c. Migration
  d. Immigration



Jsherida

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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

d



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