This paper reconsiders labeling theory focusing on labeled people's conformity as resistance. Labeled people's internal resistance, especially their conformity as resistance in the process of social interaction has not been treated previously in labeling theory.
I think that conformity is the phenomenon which is socially constructed. Labeled people who externally and internally reject their "label" can obtain the definition of conformity from labelers as a means of resistance. I regard this practice of labeled people as conformity based on internal resistance. I will classify labeled people's conformity as resistance into three types, and refer to each of them here. They are (a)the type of impression management that hides or compensates for stigma symbols, (b) the type of excessive pursuit of positive valuation, and (c)the type of finding the meaning of retaliation in preventing the prophecy of deviance from self-fulfilling.
This paper is an attempt to extend labeling theory through attaching much importance to the active reaction of labeled people, and is an attempt to construct a sociology of resistance.
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