Sociologist Robert K. Merton has made extensive studies of this condition, which he relates to the rise in crime in modern industrial societies due to frustration caused the inability of individuals to achieve their cultural and material goals.
Sociologist Robert K. Merton has made extensive studies of this condition, which he relates to the rise in crime in modern industrial societies due to frustration caused the inability of individuals to achieve their cultural and material goals. First studied by ƒmile Durkheim, this condition arises when the deterioration of societal and legal boundaries to human wants and desires leads to a limitlessness of want which can leads to violence and suicide. FTP name this state, whose name derives from the greek for "lawless".
Sociologist Robert K. Merton has made extensive studies of this condition, which he relates to the rise in crime in modern industrial societies due to frustration caused the inability of individuals to achieve their cultural and material goals.
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