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Zhang is in a rock band. They have been working for years to be 'discovered' and it just doesn't seem to be happening. Zhang’s band decides to give up the dream of making it big and instead play cover songs at weddings, because at least that allows them stay in music. If you were going to apply Merton's anomie and strain theories to Zhang’s current life, what mode of adaptation is reflected?