Lois DeFleur's study of delinquency in Argentina found that little "nonutilitarian, malicious, and negativistic" working-class delinquency occurred there because:

a. the lower classes were not socialized to seek middle-class goals.
b. there was little income inequality.
c. the lower classes were socialized to seek middle-class goals.
d. the government repressed all dissent.


Answer: a

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