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How does structural strain theory explain the existence of deviance? Deviance is the result of the tension between socially approved goals and an individual's ability to meet those goals through socially approved means.
Robert Merton's Typology of Deviance The historic foundations of the Anomie or Strain Theory go back to the work on Emile Durkheim and Robert Merton. For both sociologists, the cause of deviance is found in disturbances in the social structure.