Describe in detail the five ways, or modes, of adapting to ...

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Describe in detail the five ways, or modes, of adapting to strain.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Briefly describe the differences between organic and mechanical societies and explain how these two societal types relate to crime.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: key points to be made
 Conformity  accepts goals and means, most common but only one not deviant
 Ritualism  accepts means but not goals, bureaucratic
 Innovation  accepts goals rejects means, most common deviation
 Retreatism  rejects goals and means, drops out of society, i.e. drug addiction
 Rebellion  rejects goals and means  substitutes new ones, most controversial among theorists

Answer to Question 2

Answer: key points to be made
 Mechanical only divides work by gender but group works on shared tasks for common goal
 Organic relies on division of labor for individualized work tasks and individual goals
 Organic is complex contract oriented society each person has specialized roles while mechanical societys share a group ethos
Organic leads to anomie, suicide and crime when deregulation occurs
Mechanical reflects early agrarian society, people are tied by kinship