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tiara099 · **on:** Aug 17, 2018

According to Merton, an innovator

a. accepts both the legitimate goals and the socially approved means of acquiring those goals.
b. accepts the legitimate goals but rejects the socially approved means of acquiring those goals.
c. rejects legitimate goals and but accepts socially approved means.
d. rejects both the legitimate goals and the socially approved means of acquiring those goals.

Question 2

Merton's strain theory stresses

a. the idea that although criminal behavior is not inherited, tendencies toward criminal behavior are inherited.
b. the importance of a persons early family environment in determining attitudes towards crime.
c. the sexual maladjustments of people as a main source of crime.
d. the idea that American society emphasizes common success goals without providing equal access to the means of obtaining them.