Assignment task:
Purpose: To apply the adaptation of rebellion to current events and analyze whether rebellion and deviance was necessary to effectuate the desired political or social change.
Post: The five general adaptations to anomie: conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism, and rebellion. We have seen increasing chaos, uprisings, and rebellions over the past 5 years. Rebellion is the anomie adaptation category wherein political deviants essentially break rules in efforts to effect changes within the current system.
Choose a current political or social movement and discuss the following:
- How anomie and strain led to the rebellion.
- Who the policial deviants are.
- What is the cause or change the organization or group is advocating.
- What acts of deviance are committed for the sake of that cause.
- Whether the deviant acts are effective in changing the system.
- Whether or not there are lawful or non deviant means available to effectuate change.