All through school Ted hung out with tough kids who were always in trouble with the law. From them he learned how to steal cars, mug people, and rob convenience stores

His mother thinks things would be different for Ted if he had run with a different crowd in school. The argument that people learn deviance from people with whom they associate is called:
A) strain theory
B) labeling theory
C) differential association theory
D) social transmission theory


C

Sociology

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