According to Merton, what is the most common adaptation to anomie?

Cloward and Ohlin’s theory argued that criminal and deviant behavior is learned like other behaviors and that not everyone has the same opportunities to learn criminal skills and have criminal careers. Whose work provided the basis for these ideas?

According to Differential Opportunity Theory, ______ subcultures are considered “double failures,” because their members cannot fit into either legitimate or illegitimate subcultures.

Robbers, thieves, and embezzlers who agree with societal goals, but lack the means to achieve them, resort to stealing. Which of Merton’s five adaptations does this describe?

Emile Durkheim examined what phenomena in nineteenth-century Europe?

Strain theories assume social order is ______.

Which of the following is an assumption of anomie/strain theories?

______ is a state of normlessness, in which society fails to regulate expectations and behaviors of its members.