Theories focusing on the role of society suggest that children commit crimes in response to their failure to rise above their socioeconomic status as a rejection of middle class values.
在该空后面出现了as一词,同时,考虑到as之后为名词短语“a rejection of middle class values”(对中产阶级的价值观的排斥),此处为as的介词使用方法,因此,我们继续在该空前面的句子结构延伸——“in response to their failure to rise above their socioeconomic status”(青少年未能如愿地提升自己的社会经济地位);因此,这两部分分别是对“children commit crimes”这一部分的因果关系解释;由此,可以推断出此处空格表达的是一种并列关系,按照对应关系此处应为or。因此,正确答案为A。
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Theories focusing on the role of society suggest that children commit crimes in response to their failure to rise above their socioeconomic status or as a rejection of middle class values.