Question

His friends begin to criticize marco as a "juice-head," pushing him out of their social circle. feeling rejected, marco begins to drink even more, becomes bitter, and joins a new group of friends who also are heavy drinkers. according to lemert, marco's situation illustrates ________

Answer 1

I believe the answer is: . the onset of secondary deviance

Secondary deviance refers to the defiant behaviour that happened because someone is being publicly label as deviant and treated as an 'outsider', to the point where that person decided to internalize the label and started to acting out as so.