Labelling or Labeling (US)'s defining or describing a person in terms of his or her behavior; for example, describing someone who's broken a law as a criminal. The term's often used in sociology to describe human interaction, control and identification of deviant behavior. This's however ontologically incorrect, since the association of a name that refers to a role's based on an extrinsically defined characteristic that's only valid in a certain time and context. Oonomastics recommend to choose… (More on Labelling)