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A) The labeling theory is most important when it comes to children. This theory has been around as early as the 1950’s with the work of Becker and Lemert. Edwin Lemert made the distinction between primary deviance, and secondary deviance. When children are in school around teachers and peers, they seem to transform or take on the role of the students they are around. Most talkative students group together so they can talk. A lot of children who misbehave seem to group together as well. You can also add a child who is not so talkative to the same group who has been labeled as the “talkative group”, and eventually they will also assume that role along with the rest of the group. Although there was no desire to change in the first place it still happened. I have noticed as a parent that even my children change depending on whom they are “hanging” around at that time. The activities they are interested in doing even change. For example I have a 12 year old and at home my other children have joked around and said she is going to be a bully. She is a lot taller than the average 12 year old in 6th grade at the middle school she attends. I have never had any sort of problems with her being anything but sweet, kind, and very friendly, she was the complete opposite of a bully. The first year of middle school I got two parents knocking on my door (her former friends) saying she had been making fun of their children and also threatening to beat them up. I take bullying very serious, but honestly before the second parent came I was on complete denial about it until the second parent came. I asked my other children and they told me yes, they think she is because she is so tall and she had started hanging with a new crowd of girls and boys labeled as trouble makers, therefore she was also labeled as a troublemaker and actually became one (secondary deviance). Needless to say I nipped that in the bud, and got to the root of the problem. I never knew how much being called something could actually transform you into something that you are not. Also add the fuel of a “bad” crowd can have major influence on individuals.