... clothes and this is seen as accepted within the resort, but possibly deviant to those outside of the resort. How deviant the act of nudity is depends upon how it is interpreted by the social audience. Becker argues that this is how deviance is in fact created, because some acts can be deviant in some cases but not in others. However, it could be argued that changing the circumstances of an act (eg. being naked in a bathroom or being naked in the street) in fact changes the act itself - because being naked in the bathroom is not actually the same act as being naked in the street. It could therefore be argued that it in this circumstance it is actually the act itself which creates the deviance and that Becker is being too general about what constitutes the 'same' act. Lemert, like Becker, also considers that society's reaction ...

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