Question

Keith, mike, and paul continuously find themselves making poor decisions that lead to law breaking behaviors and suspensions from school. since they are lower class, cloward and ohlin would argue that the boys have limited means to achieving their goals. this in turn leads to their poor decision making. the theory which best describes this situation is ______.

Answer 1

The answer would be differential opportunity. This is a theory that proposes that an individual’s socio-economic environment functions to predetermine what are their chances of accomplishing financial achievement or success over and done with genuine or illegal methods. For example:  An individual from low socioeconomic circumstances, who has few chances for success, will use any methods at their removal to attain success.