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DiKsa [7]
2 years ago
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According to Robert K. Merton, people experience tension when they are exposed to cultural goals that they are unable to obtain

because they do not have access to culturally approved means of achieving those goals. Which theory describes this idea?
Social Studies
1 answer:
just olya [345]2 years ago
6 0

Answer: this theory is called Strain theory

Explanation:

In sociology and criminology, strain theory states that social structures within society may pressure citizens to commit crime. Following on the work of Émile Durkheim, strain theories have been advanced by Robert King Merton (1938), Albert K. Cohen (1955), Richard Cloward, Lloyd Ohlin (1960), Neil Smelser (1963), Robert Agnew (1992), Steven Messner and Richard Rosenfeld (1994).

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