Multiple Choice
__________ who focus on power relations in society suggest that the lifestyles considered deviant by political and economic elites are often defined as illegal. According to this approach, norms and laws are established for the benefit of those in power and do not reflect any absolute standard of right and wrong.
A) Symbolic interactionists
B) Conflict theorists
C) Functionalists
D) Postmodern theorists
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