Deviance is defined by social response, not the act itself

Evidence

Sources and influences here included the discussions of the recently formed National Deviancy Conference; the writings of American interactionist sociologists like Howard Becker (1963), who argued that deviancy was not a quality of the act but of the social response to it. 1 They made the labeling and defining of an action as deviant by the institutions of social control an essential part of deviancy as a social process. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1042

Categorization

• DEFINE: States Becker’s labeling theory: institutional definitions make an act deviant.
• XREF: Connects to Foucauldian and general social-constructionist views of deviance also read elsewhere. — connects to: A disturbance is defined by the community change it produces, not by the agent. — S. T. A. Pickett and P. S. White, eds., The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and…, 568; Sociologists define cults as loose deviant groups, not violent brainwashing sects — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 170; Deviancy is defined by social labeling response, not by the act itself — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1042 (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: A disturbance is defined by the community change it produces, not by the agent. — S. T. A. Pickett and P. S. White, eds., The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and…, 568; Sociologists define cults as loose deviant groups, not violent brainwashing sects — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 170; Deviancy is defined by social labeling response, not by the act itself — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1042 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Deviancy is defined by social labeling response, not by the act itself #corroborates (1.00) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1042