Kim is a 17-year-old single mom who takes high school classes online to complete her degree. when completed, her gpa will be 3.5. kim must also take care of her infant son, kanye, while living with her parents, who also assist her with him. she works 20 hours a week to pay for some of the expenses and never has time to herself. prior to her unplanned pregnancy, kim expected to go to college full time. now, everything is on hold and she feels she is in a hopeless situation, has become frustrated, and started selling pot for greater financial means in order to attend college full time. what theory may best explain kim's engagement in her current source of income?
a. general strain theoryb. social bond theoryc. critical theoryd. social disorganization

a. General strain theory

Explanation:

General strain theory (GST) states that people may end up commiting criminal activities to reduce their stressors or strain because they have failed to achieve social valued goals such as money and power. This is also promoted by the fact that people might have lost what is considered positively values stimuli such as romantic partners and employment.,

Some people may find it hard to deal with these stressors and decide to engage into criminal activities as the way of coping or achieving these goals.

Kim has failed to achieve a social values goal which is going to college as a result she felt there is no other way but to engage into criminal activity as a means towards this goal.

as university of miami psychologists debra lieberman and adam smith pointed out in a recent article in the journal current directions in psychological science, humans have social and psychological mechanisms to deter incest. with very few exceptions, marriages between brothers and sisters and between parents and their children are verboten in every human culture. the primary psychological anti-incest mechanism is the yuck response. even the idea of sex with their mom or dad, bro or sis is upsetting to most people. the psychologist jonathan haidt has found that nearly everyone is repelled by the prospect of brother-sister sex, even in hypothetical situations in which there is no chance of pregnancy).

the biological cost of incest

this raises an interesting question: just what’s so bad about incest? sure, having sex with your dad or your sister seems gross — but why? some anthropologists have argued that incest taboos are learned social conventions. this explanation, however, doesn’t make sense to me as it does not explain the widespread existence of anti-incest mechanisms in creatures ranging from cockroaches to chimpanzees. second, the incest taboo is about as close to a universal law as human moral rules get.

why should mechanisms to avoid incest be so widespread both in nature and across human societies? the answer is simple. the problem with having sex close with relatives is that there is an astonishingly high chance that your offspring will be born with a serious birth defect.

i would think yes.

explanation:

because we have every natianlity in our country which makes us so diverse and unique. that's why in a lot of cities there are places like little italy, koreatown, chinatown.