Immigrants have chosen to live in the middle colonies because they are seen as a "greater opportunity"
So the labelling theory is a social interactionist theory of sociology. The labelling theory explains that over time a person can accept what they have been labelled and enter the self fulfilling prophecy which leads them to accept and become that label. For explain if a teacher labels a student as badly behaved and treats them like they are badly behaved, over time they become badly behaved.
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