Fred is a bright student who made the honour roll last year. This year he began spending time with friends who prefer video games to studying and routinely earn Cs and Ds. Gradually Fred stops doing homework and extra-credit work, leaves his honours classes, and his grades fall from mostly As to Cs. Which theory of deviance best explains this?
Correct answer B. Differential association theory
Explanation
Sutherland's differential association theory says behaviour is learned from the groups we associate with, so Fred adopted his new friends' attitudes towards schoolwork.
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