Merton: Retreatism

Merton: Retreatism



Merton: Retreatism

Merton stated that anomie is the form that societal disorder that takes when there is a significant detachment "between valued cultural ends and legitimate societal means to those ends. Merton basically says that all people have legitimate goals, such as wealth, status and personal happiness, "are some of the main wishes that people have and try to be. Some people can never achieve these objectives and others that are issued to them during childhood. About two types of groups are lower class people and upper class. (Cohen, 1977) Retreatism - removal, opting for socially desirable behavior set, ...