Sociologist Robert Merton Identified Five Ways in Which People Adapt

question 96

Multiple Choice

Sociologist Robert Merton identified five ways in which people adapt to cultural goals and approved ways of achieving them. In addition to conformity, Merton classified the remaining four types of adaptation as deviance. Which of the following was not a type of adaptation identified?

• A)innovation
• B)inoculation
• C)ritualism
• D)retreatism

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Definitions:

Price Elasticity

A measure of how much the quantity demanded of a good responds to a change in the price of that good, demonstrating the goods' sensitivity to price changes.

Quantity

The amount or number of a material or immaterial good considered as a unit or total.

Perfectly Inelastic

Describing demand that is entirely unresponsive to price changes, represented by a vertical demand curve.

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