Multiple Choice
According to Howard Becker, the idea of "commitment" refers to:
A) adherence to and dependence on the norms of a given social institution
B) how people cope with being stigmatized
C) the amount of power that agencies of social control have in creating deviant labels
D) the rate at which people who are labeled as deviant are institutionalized
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