Erin Potts Professor Burkhart CRI 225 LA August 4, 2011 Sort answer Questions

1) List Mertons five modes of adaptation and briefly describe each. Which mode of adaptation best describes oneself and why? Conformity: This is characterized by persons who accept institutionalized means to achieve culturally approved goals. Innovation: Where persons reject institutionalized means to achieve culturally approved goals: instead, they engage in illegal acts, considers innovative, to achieve their goals. Ritualism: Where persons reject culturally approved goals but work toward lesser goals through institutionalized means. Retreatism: Persons reject culturally approved goals and institutionalized means and do little or nothing to achieve; homeless persons, Bag ladies, Vagrants, and...