Across
- 5. The theory that deviance is the result of how others interpret a behaviour.
- 6. Social rules that define the boundaries of acceptable behaviour.
- 8. Initial act of rule-breaking.
- 10. A tag that is used to identify or classify a person or behaviour as deviant.
- 11. When a person begins to take on a deviant identity due to being labelled as deviant.
Down
- 1. The response of others to someone labelled as deviant.
- 2. A belief or expectation that influences a person to act in ways that make that belief come true.
- 3. A person who has been labelled as breaking societal norms.
- 4. Sociologist who developed the Labelling Theory.
- 7. A powerful negative label that changes a person's self-concept and social identity.
- 9. Someone who has been labelled as deviant and is thus set apart from normal society.