Source: Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance (1963), p. 4.
“I … view deviance as the product of a transaction that takes place between some social group and one who is viewed by that group as a rule-breaker. I will be less concerned with the personal and social characteristics of deviants than with the process by which they come to be thought of as outsiders and their reactions to that judgment.”
Source: Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance (1963), p. 10.
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