If a sociologist were to explain the eventual split of Czechoslovakia into two countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, because of the way that the communist government denied its citizens the right to form trade unions and practice their religion,

which social movement theory would this researcher be employing?

a. relative deprivation theory
b. mass society theory
c. structural strain theory
d. resource-mobilization theory


Answer: B

Sociology

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