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Deviance Paper Eric Butchart 1st Block Deviant behaviour has sadly been a ongoing occurrence in society throughout history, more noticeably in life today. Sociologists have been provoked to study and form theories in order to try and explain why social phenomena such as suicide, prostitution and drug use occur in our society. The Interactionist Perspective (known to many as the Labelling Theory) is interested in social processes and examines deviant behaviour using such methods as …

…cultures label as ‘deviant,’ and that the Audience plays a vital role in controlling societies understanding Butchart 9 of the ‘definition of a deviant’. Although the Interactionist theory may not explain the initial causes of deviance, social phenomena such as drug use may well continue to be on going in our society due to the ‘stickiness of labels’ and ‘the self-fulfilling prophesy’ in which people grow into further careers of deviance, and the deviant cycle continues.