Robert Merton’s ideas on crime and deviance make use of the concept of anomie. What does anomie mean in Merton’s work ?
A. Normlessness
B. meaninglessness
C. social strain
D. social adaptation
A. Normlessness
B. meaninglessness
C. social strain
D. social adaptation
A. environmental protection and economic growth are incompatible aims
B. environmental protection cannot be achieved without high tech solutions
C. an ecological form of economic growth is possible
D. consumer demand and market mechanisms can bring about ecologically benign outcomes
A. family
B. Friends
C. Classroom
D. None of these
A. preindustrial city
B. industrial city
C. postindustrial city
D. edge cities
A. Auguste Comte
B. Spencer
C. Karl Max
D. None of these
A. exhaustive
B. mutually exclusive
C. comprehensive
D. tangible
E. relevant
A. it concentrates too much on kinship ties
B. the government should be raising benefit levels
C. in modern affluent societies no one is truly poor
D. it is wrong to make comparisons between countries