According to Howard S. Becker, why do marijuana smokers enjoy using the drug?
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They engage in a social process of learning to define the experience as fun and pleasurable.
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If a label is said to be "sticky" when referring to deviance, it means that:
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it is hard to lose that label
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When an elementary school student is labeled the "class clown" by his teacher and then adopts the persona and lives up to others' expectations by acting silly, the class clown label has become a:
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stigma
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Illegal drug dealing is an example of which of the following types of crimes, as defined by sociologists?
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Street Crime
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Prisons and military boot camps are examples of what Erving Goffman calls:
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total institutions
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