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“Anomie is rooted in social structure.” Explain with reference to R. K. Merton’s contribution.

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Before Robert K. Merton, deviance was widely traced to faulty individuals or unrestrained impulses. In "Social Structure and Anomie" (1938) Merton reversed the question. He asked how "social structures exert a definite pressure upon certain persons in the society to engage in non-conforming rather than conforming conduct". Anomie, for him, is a property of the…

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  • Two elements of structure and their imbalance
  • Why the source is structural
  • Institutional anomie: the argument extended
  • Indian illustrations
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