Following Smelser's Value-Added Theory, Why Wouldn't We Expect a Poor

question 24

Multiple Choice

Following Smelser's value-added theory, why wouldn't we expect a poor, third-world nation based on a barter economy to develop mass hysteria over stock market problems like the U.S. did in the 1920s?

• A) lack of structural conduciveness
• B) lack of structural strain
• C) lack of generalized belief
• D) action of social control

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