Reject society's goals and means
Ex. Drug abusers

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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

Conformity is the tendency for individuals to alter their behavior to align with a group, a phenomenon often driven by the power of a social situation. People may conform even when the group's information is inaccurate, motivated by a desire to fit in or a belief that the group is knowledgeable.

Conformity

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

Retreatism

Replace societies means and goals
Ex. Revolutionairies

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