Look at Merton’s Modes of Adaptation. Give at least one example of how someone‚ perhaps someone in the criminal justice system‚ uses each mode. Robert K. Merton’s "Social Structure and Anomie" (1938). People adapt in many different ways. Just as part of a river that suddenly finds it‚ self blocked by an obstacle and may split and find a new way to the ocean. Merton outlines five ways in which people adapt to society’s goals and means and they are as follows: 1) Conformity - Adherence to the practices
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Barriers to entry are economic‚ procedural‚ regulatory‚ or technological factors that obstruct or restrict entry of new firms into an industry or market. Barriers to exit are perceived or real impediments that keep a firm from quitting uncompetitive markets or from discontinuing a low-profit product. 2. Types of barriers: Innocent barriers are those that are part and parcel of the nature of the industry and have not been specially erected by the incumbents to hinder the entry of other firms
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Article: 2 Problems and Prospects of Open and Distance Education in Nigeria Mudasiru Olalere YUSUF (Ph.D) Senior lecturer (Educational Technology) Department of Curriculum Studies and Educational Technology‚ Faculty of Education University of Ilorin‚ Ilorin NIGERIA ABSTRACT Distance education as a mean of providing access to education‚ particularly tertiary level education‚ has gained great prominence in the world. Nigeria has taken giant steps of recent to introduce open and distance education
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Mean‚ median‚ and mode are differing values that furnish information regarding a set of observations. The mean is used when one desires to determine the average value for data ranked in intervals. The median is used to learn the middle of graded information‚ and the mode is used to summarize non-numeric data. The mean is equal to the amount of all the data in a set divided by the number of values in that set. It is typically used with continuous figures. The result will probably not be one of the
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In The Entry into Jerusalem‚ the biblical narrative of Zacheus displays the theme of equality in the ministry of Jesus Christ. The dramatists portray the socially-constructed hierarchies that reflect economic and physical stature as irrelevant to religious doctrine. Regardless of the characters’ social status in the Jewish community‚ Christ perceives all of the citizens as equal to their peers and inferior to the sovereignty of God. The dramatists characterize Zacheus as a citizen who is vulnerable
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“JOURNAL ENTRIES” a. JIL made initial cash investment. Cash XXX JIL‚ Capital XXX b. JIL made an additional investment‚ Equipment. Equipment XXX JIL‚ Capital XXX c. Purchased equipment on account. Equipment XXX Accounts Payable XXX d. Purchased equipment for cash. Equipment XXX Cash XXX e. Purchased supplies on account. Supplies XXX Accounts Payable XXX f. Purchased supplies for cash. Supplies XXX Cash XXX g. Rendered services on account. Accounts receivable XXX Service
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e EDouble entry - Income statement 1. Sales When sales are made‚ capital increases by the amount of profit made on the sale. 2. Expenses When ongoing costs‚ such as wages or rent are incurred‚ capital decreases. 3. Income and expense accounts Periodically‚ usually once a year‚ the figure of profit (income - minus expenses) is added to capital. During the year figures are accumulated in separate accounts for each item of income and expenditure. 4. Cost of sales At the end of the year‚ the
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Journal Entry Question #4: “Everyday Use” What is heritage? This is a question that begins to wander through one’s mind in Alice Walker’s Everyday Use. Although‚ it seems like a pretty generic answer‚ one sees that through this story that there are different meanings to people. Everyday Use is a story that follows a mom and her two daughters Maggie and Dee otherwise known as “Wangero.” It goes through these lives to share with the reader how people can completely abandon their past or ways of
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The educational System of Nigeria OVERVIEW Education in Nigeria is the shared responsibility of the federal‚ state and local governments. The Federal Ministry of Education plays a dominant role in regulating the education sector‚ engaging in policy formation and ensuring quality control. However‚ the federal government is more directly involved with tertiary education than it is with school education‚ which is largely the responsibility of state (secondary) and local (primary) governments. The education
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