Question

Jennifer goes out at night with a spray can and writes on a stop sign. She successfully vandalizes for the first time. Labeling theorists would call this ________ deviance.

a. stigmatized
b. social control
c. secondary
d. primary

Answer 1

The right answer is d.

Step-by-step explanation:

Primary deviance is the first stage of a deviant behavior. Deviance is a type of behavior that veers away from established social norms and from what is taught. Deviance is a social creation; social groups create deviance by setting rules whose breaking means deviance, and apply them to particular people, labeling them outsiders, according to sociologists. Primary deviance are the first acts of deviance by an individual that have only minor consequences for that person´s social status.