| 释义 |
deviant career deviant career the process in which an individual comes to accept a deviant ‘self-identity’, and, often, to identify with a deviant SUBCULTURE. The concept is associated with LABELLING THEORY, indicating the fact that people are not born deviant, but only come to consider themselves as such through a process involving SOCIETAL REACTION. See also SECONDARY DEVIANCE, GOFFMANN. |