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Five Exits From the Same Gap, Not One Kind of Deviance

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Wikipedia: Robert K. Merton
Theory of deviance section
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Innovation and ritualism are the pure cases of anomie as Merton defined it because in both cases there is a contradiction or discontinuity between goals and means.
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