COMM 3001 Study Guide - Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Onon River, Sexually Transmitted Infection

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 3001
• Professor: Steve Tasson

Document Summary

In his book suicide, sociologist emile durkheim explored how a sense of moral and social confusion coming from a feeling of disconnect from societal norms and standards causes strain, leading individuals to participate in socially deviant behavior. The deviant behavior durkheim explored was suicide, but the basis of his theories was re-examined later by sociologist robert. K merton, who applied this theory to explain numerous other cases of social deviance, including prostitution. Merton"s strain theory evaluates underlying social strains that may be contributing factors for an individual to make the decision to become a prostitution. Merton categorizes different types of social deviance, placing prostitutes into the. Schwatrz, 2013) culture establishes goals for people in society while social structure provides (or fails to provide) the means for people to achieve those goals. Merton feels that in a well- integrated society, people use accepted and appropriate means to achieve the goals that society (merton, 1986, 1986).