What does mode of adaptation mean?

Rather the response, or modes of adaptation, depend on the individual’s attitudes toward cultural goals and the institutional means to attain them. The conformist is the most common mode of adaptation. Such individuals accept both the goals as well as the prescribed means for achieving the goal.

What is the explanation of Merton’s definition?

Crime is a result of a ‘strain’ between legitimate goals and lack of opportunities to achieve those goals. Strain Theory argues that crime occurs when there aren’t enough legitimate opportunities for people to achieve the normal success goals of a society.

What are the 5 modes of adaptation that Merton suggests occur as a result of strain which 2 of these modes is most likely to lead to crime?

The five adaptations to strain as explained by Merton in his strain theory are conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism, and rebellion. Each of these adaptations is a result of the interaction a person experiences between culturally-accepted goals and the socially-accepted means of achieving those goals.

What are the five modes of adaptation according to Merton which is most likely to lead to the commission of cyber crime?

He outlined five modes of adaptation, or combinations of goals and means, and suggested that innovation was the mode most likely to be associated with crime. Those five modes of adaptation include conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism, and rebellion.

What is example of ritualism?

One common example of ritualism is when people do not embrace the goal of getting ahead in society by doing well in one’s career and earning as much money as possible. Many have often thought of this as the American Dream, as did Merton when he created his theory of structural strain.

What ritualism means?

1. adherence to or insistence on ritual. 2. the study of ritual practices or religious rites.

What is an example of Retreatism?

A homeless person is most definitely an example of retreatism if the person is lacking the institutional means to achieve the goal of living in a home and getting a job to support him or herself and doesn’t feel inclined to try and reach this goal via other means such as stealing.

What is Retreatism in sociology?

noun Sociology. the rejection of culturally prescribed goals and the conventional means for attaining them.

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