Replace societies means and goals
Ex. Revolutionairies

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5 different terms created by Merton to describe how people view the means to achieve agoal and how they feel about a goal

Goals and Means Disjuncture

Siegel, L. J. (2000). Criminology. Criminology: Siegel, Larry J: Free Download, Borrow. Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. https://archive.org/details/criminology00sieg. 

Criminology

People in this category accept societies' goals but use socially unapproved or unconventional means to strive for them.

Innovation

Do not believe the goals of society are legitimate or real but the opportunity to do them are

Ritualism

Reject society's goals and means
Ex. Drug abusers

Retreatism

Rebellion

Conformity is the change in a person's behavior to go along with the group, even if he does not agree with the group.

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