Discuss social structure and anomie

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Please discuss "Social Structure and Anomie," by Merton by answering (among other aspects of the article you find instructive) the following questions:

Using one example from Merton's typology, how could the relation between cultural goals and institutionalized means within a society exert pressures on individuals to adapt in ways that are nonconformist?
How does the misalignment or disconnection of cultural goals with institutional means contribute to what Merton calls a strain towards anomie and deviant behavior? Use examples from American society in your response.

© The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s-1960s challenged the status quo of racism, legal segregation, and discrimination, through civil disobedience and other non-violent protest. Using Merton's typology as an explanatory framework, discuss whether this movement reflected one or more modes of individual and group adaptation: conformity, innovation, rebellion, or a combination.

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