 | Mary Margaret Fonow, Judith A. Cook - Social Science - 1991 - 320 pages
...functions of social structure is to provide a basis for predictability and regularity of social behavior, it becomes increasingly limited in effectiveness as...become dissociated. At the extreme, predictability is minimized and what may be properly called anomie or cultural chaos supervenes (Merton, 1949, p. 149)... | |
 | Mary Margaret Fonow, Judith A. Cook - Social Science - 1991 - 310 pages
...functions of social structure is to provide a basis for predictability and regularity of social behavior, it becomes increasingly limited in effectiveness as...become dissociated. At the extreme, predictability is minimized and what may be properly called anomie or cultural chaos supervenes (Merton, 1949, p. 149)... | |
 | Robert K. Merton - Science - 1996 - 386 pages
...functions of social structure is to provide a basis for predictability and regularity of social behavior, it becomes increasingly limited in effectiveness as...become dissociated. At the extreme, predictability is minimized and what may be called anomie or cultural chaos supervenes. This essay on the structural... | |
 | Sandra Harding, Merrill B. Hintikka † - Philosophy - 2003 - 332 pages
...functions of social structure is to provide a basis for predictability and regularity of social behavior, it becomes increasingly limited in effectiveness as...become dissociated. At the extreme, predictability is minimized and what may be properly called anomie or cultural chaos supervenes. (Merton, 1949, p. 149)... | |
 | Sandra Harding, Merrill B. Hintikka † - Philosophy - 2003 - 332 pages
...functions of social structure is to provide a basis for predictability and regularity of social behavior, it becomes increasingly limited in effectiveness as...become dissociated. At the extreme, predictability is minimized and what may be properly called anomie or cultural chaos supervenes. (Merton, 1949, p. 149)... | |
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it becomes increasingly limited in effectiveness as these elements of the social structure become dissociated. At the extreme, predictability is 