The fact that the Saints placed less emphasis on physical toughness and fate than the Roughnecks appears to provide support for:

a. Merton's strain theory.
b. Sutherland's differential association theory.
c. Hirschi's social control theory.
d. Miller's lower-class focal concern theory


D

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