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The halo effect refers to the idea that a certain trait about a individual influences how others judge other traits about that person. We might, for example, see a tall person, and assume that she is a leader or out spoken. One connection with this course is that labels have a halo effect. In fact, it is quite common for a deviant label to have a totalizing effect, completely washing over and redefining other character traits. (AM)

"The product of a transaction that takes place between some social group and one who is viewed by the group as a rule-breaker."pp.10

A political label given to people who deviate from the rules of a social group (?)

A Latin phrase often used in English and meaning "In secret or confidentially" — literally "under the rose." In organizational discourse it tends to mean "off the record." A related concept is the Chatham House Rule, a protocol that allows people to speak freely at meetings because of a collective agreement not to quote and attribute outside the meeting. (VB & DR)

Rule breaking behavior only becomes deviance when people react to it and label it as such. Howard Becker made a distinction between behavior that breaks rules or doesn't and behavior to which people react or not to yield a 2x2 table that included, famously, a cell for "secret deviance" — behavior that breaks the rules but no one knows about. (VB & DR)