For 10 points, name this landmark 1949 work about the practice of sociology by Robert K.Merton.
This book lists five "modes of adaptation" which govern conflicts between individuals andsociety: conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism, and rebellion. It uses examples from the bookThe American Soldier to advance the theory of relative deprivation, which is expanded into referencegroup theory. Its third chapter argues that the full integration of societies cannot be assumed, andthat researchers tend to downplay the negative or superfluous features of social practices, beforemaking the distinction between (*) manifest and latent functions. Early in this book, the author condemnsboth the directionless collection of data and the building of all-encompassing theories, instead proposing"theories of the middle range." At the other end of this book, it discusses the danger of the self-fulfillingprophecy. For 10 points, name this landmark 1949 work about the practice of sociology by Robert K.Merton.
This book lists five "modes of adaptation" which govern conflicts between individuals andsociety: conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism, and rebellion.
Social Theory and Social Structure