According to Osgood, adolescents and young adults have a high rate of ____, which in turn allows them to engage in deviant behaviors such as alcohol and marijuana use
a. disregard for social norms
b. testosterone
c. unstructured socializing
d. antisocial tendencies
C. Osgood explains deviance on the basis of propensity and opportunity; it is adolescent and young adults who have a high degree of unstructured socializing, which he uses to correlate marijuana and alcohol use for this group of individuals.
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