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4 Mar 2009 19:12:31 IST
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According to Robert Merton, people who reject both the existing values and the means of achieving them by attempting to reconstruct a new social system are termed as ?
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4 Mar 2009 23:29:23 IST
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This form of deviant behavior is called Retreatism by Merton. It is a tendency associated with escapist psychology. People like Drug Addicts resort to this kind of behavior as an escape from the reality which they can neither change nor accept.
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