Answer:
Anomie
Explanation:
Merton developed the concept of ‘anomie’ to describe this imbalance between cultural goals and institutionalised means. He argued that such an imbalanced society produces anomie – there is a strain or tension between the goals and means which produce unsatisfied aspirations.
Merton argued that when individuals are faced with a gap between their goals (usually finances/money related) and their current status, strain occurs. When faced with strain, people have five ways to adapt:
1. Conformity: pursing cultural goals through socially approved means.
2. Innovation: using socially unapproved or unconventional means to obtain culturally approved goals. Example: dealing drugs or stealing to achieve financial security.
3. Ritualism: using the same socially approved means to achieve less elusive goals (more modest and humble).
4. Retreatism: to reject both the cultural goals and the means to obtain it, then find a way to escape it.
5. Rebellion: to reject the cultural goals and means, then work to replace them.
The Plains Indians originated from the Great Plains and the Canadian Prairies. However, it is important to note that all of this prairie land stretches from Canada, to the United States and down to Mexico. It touches the following provinces of Canada: Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The states it has land in are Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming. In Mexico, it touches some territory in northern Mexico, but stops at the Rio Grande.
Answer:
<em>Class </em>mobility.
Explanation:
<u>Class mobility </u>is a type of social mobility when representatives of a lower-class move to the higher class. It can occur as a result of changes in both classes.
In the given example it occurs both because of the fact that families in the higher class have fewer children and because some offsprings from a lower-class families are hardworking. The tendency that higher-class couples tend to have fewer children leads to the more available spaces in the entry-level labor force, which in turn creates more real opportunities for children from lower-class families. This in is itself becomes an extra motivator to work harder.
