In his study of New England's Puritans,Kai Erikson concluded that
A)people everywhere define mostly the same things as deviant.
B)very religious people create very little deviance.
C)even this disciplined and highly religious group created deviance to clarify the moral boundaries of their community.
D)the proportion of people in the population that the Puritans defined as deviant kept rising over time.

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Kai Erikson's study of New England's Puritans found that even this highly disciplined and religious group created deviance to clarify the moral boundaries of their community. This deviance helped to define what was acceptable behavior and what was not, and therefore reinforced the values and norms of the community.

In His Study of New England's Puritans,Kai Erikson Concluded That