Howard Becker,a symbolic interactionist,was interested in deviance and crime,believing that criminal behaviour is learned in the same way as any other type of behaviour.What was his theory?

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Final Answer : Labelling theory: Deviance is based on the reactions of others to an individual's act.He argues that it is the response that leads to the labelling of a person as deviant.Deviance is socially produced by main rules whose violation represents deviance and by applying those rules to particular people and labelling them outsiders.No act is inherently deviant until a group with socially powerful statuses or positions labels it as such.

Howard Becker,a symbolic interactionist,was interested in deviance and crime,believing that criminal behaviour is learned in the same way as any other type of behaviour.What was his theory?

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