1. The Societal Reaction Perspective
Edwin Lemert was one of the first theorists to begin working on the societal reaction perspective, around the early 1950's. ... The first stage in the process is the making of rules and social norms by the group which has the most socio-economic power. ... Kitsuse viewed deviance as a three stage process in "which the members of a group, community or society interpret behavior as deviant, define persons who so behave as a certain kind of deviant, and accord them the treatment considered appropriate to such deviants." [3] In the first stage in which deviance may be conceived, ...
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