Merton's Modes of Adaptation.
Look at Merton's Modes of Adaptation. Give at least one example of how someone, perhaps someone in the criminal justice system, uses each mode.
Robert K. Merton's "Social Structure and Anomie" (1938). People adapt in many different ways. Just as part of a river that suddenly finds it, self blocked by an obstacle and may split and find a new way to the ocean. Merton outlines five ways in which people adapt to society's goals and …
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…one on top of the other, something that no man could conceive of in his imagination. You can't conceive of what it would be like to see every man judge himself and then take it out on every other man all over the face of the earth."
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http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/SRPage.aspx?search=conformity&Submit2=Go
http://www.mayhem.net/Crime/manson.html
http://www.crimetheory.com
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