Author Question: Describe in detail the five ways, or modes, of adapting to strain. What will be an ideal ... (Read 56 times)

debasdf

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 570
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?



mfedorka

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 324
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



Related Topics

Need homework help now?

Ask unlimited questions for free

Ask a Question
 

Did you know?

Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.

Did you know?

Intradermal injections are somewhat difficult to correctly administer because the skin layers are so thin that it is easy to accidentally punch through to the deeper subcutaneous layer.

Did you know?

Eating food that has been cooked with poppy seeds may cause you to fail a drug screening test, because the seeds contain enough opiate alkaloids to register as a positive.

Did you know?

The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria on it than a toilet.

Did you know?

About 3% of all pregnant women will give birth to twins, which is an increase in rate of nearly 60% since the early 1980s.

For a complete list of videos, visit our video library