Außenseiter. Zur Soziologie abweichenden Verhaltens, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1981, S. 8, ISBN 3-596-26624-6 (US-amerikanische Originalausgabe: Outsiders. Studies in the Sociology of Deviance, New York 1963, deutscher Übersetzer: Willi Köhler, erste deutsche Ausgabe: Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1973)
Original englisch: "The deviant is one to whom that label has successfully been applied; deviant behavior is behavior that people so label." - '
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Becker (1982) "Culture: A Sociological View", In: Yale Review, Summer 1982, pp. 513-27.
Quelle: Writing for Social Scientists (1986), p. 122.
Quelle: Writing for Social Scientists (1986), p. 52.
But the person who is thus labeled an outsider may have a different view of the matter. He may not accept the rule by which he is being judged and may not regard those who judge him as either competent or legitimately entitled to do so. Hence, a second meaning of the term emerges: the rule-breaker may feel his judges are outsiders.
Quelle: Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance (1963), pp. 1-2.