The Stigma and Negative Effects of the Labeling Theory in Society (4616 words, 18 pages)
Abstract In today's society, everything is tagged with a label. Food, clothesand more importantly, people are labeled. In the early 1960s and late1970s, Howard Becker and Edwin Lemert introduced labeling theory, orsocietal reaction theory, as it is sometimes called. Labeling theoryattempts to explain and focus on how and why labels ...
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