This sociologist distinguished between manifest and latent functions.
In one work, this thinker used the example of a Hopi rain dance to describe actions with intended and unintended consequences. In another, he used Kate Smith's radio marathon to sell war bonds as a case study of mass persuasion. This thinker rejected both narrow empiricism and abstract theory in favor of a middle range theory. He posited that, to square their goals with social norms, people use conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism and rebellion, the five modes of adaptation. This sociologist distinguished between manifest and latent functions. He used Durkheim's concept of anomie to explain deviant behavior in what he called strain theory. For 10 points, name this American sociologist who coined the terms "role model" and "self-fulfilling prophecy" and wrote Social Theory and Social Structure.
In one work, this thinker used the example of a Hopi rain dance to describe actions with intended and unintended consequences.
Robert King Merton [accept Meyer Robert Schkolnick]