Merton
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- Created on: 03-04-15 10:12
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- Merton
- Basics
- Building on DURKHEIM'S anomie
- A critique of American culture
- Evaluation
- We do not know how much monetary success is really valued in society
- Why those in lower classes are more universially accepting of a deviant/criminal behaviour.
- Anomie
- Anomie is created because people cannot achieve societies goals
- American society and values cause crime
- Blocked means create strain and anomie leading to deviance
- The American dream says everyone who works hard can achieve prosperity and success
- Deviant adaptions
- Innovate
- They accept the goal in society but reject the means of getting it
- Ritualist
- an individual who does not values the goals of society but still uses the means as a way of conforming to society
- Rebellion
- radical alternative to retreatism
- new goals and new means of attaining them
- Retreatist
- an individual who has both rejected the means of achieving the goals of society as well as the goal itself
- Innovate
- Basics
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