Modes of Adaptation Flashcards
1
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4 Ways of Adapting to Strain
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- Innovation: the most common of four deviant types. “The end justifies the means”
- Ritualism: the means become the aspirations of an individual (e. g. keeping a job as a form of security)
- Retreatism: a rejection of both the goals and the means (vagrants, drug addicts, etc.)
- Rebellion: focuses on the substitution of new goals and means (revolutionaries, etc.)
2
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Theory’s Emphasis
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The theory focuses solely on socially-structured sources of deviance and purposefully does not discuss the social mechanisms by which individuals come to such deviance
3
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2 Types of Conformity
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- Real conformity found in individuals for whom there is no problem in accessing the means for achieving the goals
- As a deviant mode of adaptation found in individuals who remain committed to the goals despite not having access to the means
