Deviant ways of adapting to strain

Cards (4)

  • Innovation
    accept the goal but find illegal ways of achieving it by committing utilitarian crimes. They are usually from the lower classes, where legitimate opportunities are blocked
  • Ritualism
    Ritualists give up striving for success. They plod along in a dead end job
  • Retreatism
    Retreatists are drop outs who reject both goals and means (vagrants, drunkards and drug addicts)
  • Rebellion
    Rebels reject the existing goals and means, replacing them with new ones with the aim of changing society. Examples include political radicals and alternative cultures such as hippies