Question

Casey could not believe that her friends were going onto college after high school. She found it much more important to try to overthrow the current government, and she planned to chain herself to the capitol building and stage a hunger strike until her demands were met. Merton would argue that Casey was coping with strain through ______.

Answer 1

Rebellion

Step-by-step explanation:

Merton elaborated a classification of behavioral types and called “modes of adaptation” that demonstrates how each individual behaves in the face of social rules and the tension that these rules generate. The classification is divided into the categories: conformity, innovation, ritualism, evasion and rebellion.

According to Merton, Casey is dealing with the social rule that requires that we go to college through rebellion. The conduct of rebellion refers to the individual who wants to be against goals and social means, and can be characterized as being negative (-) as means and negative (-) as goals. In this case, at the same time that the individual opposes the goals and the social means by judging them as excessively high and insufficient, proposes the establishment of new goals with the institutionalization of new means, which is why at the same time it is negative (- ) as for goals and means, it is also positive (+).