When people join social movements based on their evaluations of what they think they should have compared with what others have, they are employing which of the following theories to explain the movement?

A) anomie theory
B) estrangement theory
C) alienation theory
D) relative deprivation theory


Answer: D) relative deprivation theory

Sociology

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