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Social Deviance/Symbolic Interactionism
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The symbolic interactionist school of sociology came up as a counterpoint to the structural-functionalist view. This school is interested primarily in individual-to-individual interactions by way of communication through symbols (the symbolic, subjective definitions of objects and ideas in the world; definitions that may hold different meanings for different individuals).
Symbols
Sutherland
Differential Association
White Collar Crime
Tannenbaum
Labeling Theory
Primary And Secondary Deviance