The basic idea behind labeling theory is that
A) deviance arises not so much from what people do as how others respond to what they do.
B) deviance is actually useful in a number of ways.
C) people rarely define even harmful wrongdoing as deviance.
D) power has much to do with how a society defines deviance.
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