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Which is the least common mode of adaptation, according to merton?

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Retreatism, the least common adaptation according to Merton, involves a rejection of both the goals of the culture, and the institutionalized means to achieve them; the Marxist construct of the lumpen proletariat would fit under the aegis of this adaptation.

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