According to Robert Merton's Structural Strain Theory, Which of the Following

question 28

Multiple Choice

According to Robert Merton's structural strain theory, which of the following individuals would be LEAST likely to be a deviant?

• A) a young widow who has never been to college
• B) a middle manager who no longer has any hope of being promoted but continues to zealously follow the rules
• C) a middle-aged man who decides that his job is pointless and his life shallow and materialistic, so he moves to the woods and devotes himself to bird-watching
• D) a white college student from a middle-class family who's experimenting with drugs while in college and is interested in sports
• E) an illegal immigrant who has managed to get a job as a night janitor

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Definitions:

Environmental Factors

Aspects of the surroundings that can influence an individual's or population's physical, emotional, and cognitive development or well-being.

Personality Measures

Tools or tests designed to quantitatively assess individual characteristics and differences in personality.

Subjective

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Biases

Systematic and often unfair inclinations or prejudgements towards particular people, groups, or ideas.