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Jane’s job has clear expectations requiring timeliness and constant activity while on the clock, however, she doesn’t take the rules too seriously showing up late for work and from break resulting in poor performance reviews.  While Jane understands the rules, her feeling that it is not necessary to make good use of time represents which concept?

Poverty in the USA

Life chances refers to:

Rules of endogamy would result in individuals selecting mates

Researchers have confirmed that delinquents are more likely to come from families that get in trouble with the law.  This finding best supports the ____ theory.

In regards to divorce

Merton’s theory of anomie refers to 

________make social life possible by making behavior predictable.

Alex is an accomplished singer but refrains form singing while in class, at 2 am when relatives are sleeping, or to strangers in an elevator.  By considering the social context in  which one behaves, this example reflects the ____ view of deviance.

While attending a movie, Sam talks out loud to his friends and disregards the persons sitting nearby.  Mead would suggest that Sam has a poorly developed sense of: