Which of the following would best illustrate the emphasis on the process of defining deviance?
a. Cigarette smoking, once labeled "sophisticated," is now labeled self-destructive.
b. The sexual mechanics between people of the same sex and how it looks "wrong" or "gross."
c. The way something is deviant to one group and normal to another.
d. Only those with power have the power to label certain behaviors as deviant.
a
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A) an objectivist approach B) stereotyping C) agreed-upon facts D) social context
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a. nominal level dependent variables b. ordinal level independent variables c. very small samples d. an interval-ratio dependent variable
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