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Robert Merton Advanced the Idea That Labeling Can Bring About

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Robert Merton advanced the idea that labeling can bring about self-fulfilling prophecies: that inaccurate beliefs, if repeated loudly and frequently enough, can become true. Compare the ideas of Merton and those of the sociologist Elijah Anderson, who believed that a self-fulfilling prophecy has contributed to racial conflict in the United States.


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