Beginning in the 1950s with the work of people like Becker and Lemert (and continuing down to the present day in the pages of the journal, Social Problems) , the symbolic interactionist approach to deviance began to focus on the way in which negative labels get applied and on the consequences of the labeling process.
Interactive: Unique New Zealand. Skinks and geckos are the only 2 native families of lizard found in New Zealand (note that tuatara are not lizards). They are vertebrates and belong to the class Reptilia. All our native skink and gecko species are endemic.
The largest species, the kawekaweau, is only known from a single, stuffed specimen found in the basement of a museum in Marseille, France. This gecko was 60 cm (24 in) long and it was likely endemic to New Zealand, where it lived in native forests.hey are the most species-rich group of lizards, with about 1,500 different species worldwide. The New Latin gekko and English gecko stem from the Indonesian-Malay gÄkoq, which is imitative of the sound the animals make.