What is primary deviance and secondary deviance? Provide an example of each.
What will be an ideal response?
Primary deviance is the act of deviance before it becomes part of the labeled person’s life. Secondary deviance follows primary deviance and is internalizing continuous deviant acts and conceptualizing self as a deviant. An example of primary deviance is smoking first cigarette in the bathroom at high school with some friends. Not everyone gets in trouble and manages to evade the bathroom before school officials catch the students. Those who are caught receive detention and become the kids who were caught smoking in the bathroom. They are continually watched and cannot exercise their liberties of going to the bathroom during class as much as other kids, because teachers know they were caught (even if it was the first time). They also faced punishment in their extracurriculars and the team coaches think they smoke regularly now. Those who are labeled and have faced such repercussions drop out after the first few games of being benched and begin to smoke at lunch and do other things because teachers and coaches have ostracized, marginalized, and overly punished them based on a label gained from being caught in the act of primary deviance.
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