In 2011, the Occupy Wall Street movement drew large numbers of people to New York City to protest rising income inequality. To make their point, these protestors marched on the city streets, built tent cities where they lived and slept while the demonstrations were ongoing, and actively worked to disrupt the flow of life. In Robert K. Merton’s view, these people would be what kind of deviants?

rebels  

Explanation:

In sociology, there are five distinct types of deviance based on the given criteria including rebellion, conformity, ritualism, innovation, and retreatism.

Rebels deviant: The term "rebels deviant" is described as one of the types of deviance behavior in which a person tend to reject the societal and culturally-oriented means as well as goals and therefore actively discards them with societal or culturally-unacceptable means or goals.

In the question above, according to Robert K. Merton’s view, the given people would be rebels deviant.

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classical republicanism, also known as civic humanism, is a form of republicanism  developed in the renaissance inspired by the governmental forms and writings of  classical  antiquity, especially such  classical  writers as aristotle, polybius, and cicero.