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Howard S. Becker

“All social groups groups make rules and attempt, at some times and under some circumstances, to enforce them. Social rules define situations and the kinds of behavior appropriate to them, specifying some actions as "right" and forbidding others as "wrong".”

Howard S. Becker, Outsiders: Studies In The Sociology Of Deviance
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