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According to Robert Merton's strain theory, which of the following concepts

correctly describes the behavior of a person who gets rich by committing fraud while
working at a bank?
deviant innovation
deviant ritualism
deviant retreatism.
rebellion

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According to Robert Merton's strain approach, deviant innovation defines the behavior of a person who gets rich by committing fraud while working at a bank. Thus, option a is correct.

Social strain theory was invented by an American sociologist named Robert K. Merton. The theory says that social networks may pressure nationals to commit crimes. Strain may be structural, which refers to the procedures at the public class that filter down.

In an unequal civilization, the stress or strain between socially agreed goals and an individual's capacity to meet those objectives through socially sanctioned means will guide to deviance as people leave either the plans or the means or both.

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