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What is a group of drug dealers called?
A drug cartel is any criminal organization with the intention of supplying drug trafficking operations. They range from loosely managed agreements among various drug traffickers to formalized commercial enterprises.
What are the five adaptations to strain explained by Merton?
Those five modes of adaptation include conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism, and rebellion.
What is Merton’s theory?
Merton’s anomie theory is that most people strive to achieve culturally recognized goals. A state of anomie develops when access to these goals is blocked to entire groups of people or individuals. The result is a deviant behaviour characterized by rebellion, retreat, ritualism, innovation, and/or conformity.
What can we learn from the glamorization of drugs?
The glamorized and destructive behaviors of drugs, gambling, and criminal activity tell us a lot about the world we live in and the monsters we’ve created, but such adulation has also made a market for illegal drugs, and the people who spread them.
Why do we glamorize celebrities?
On the one hand, our celebrities are pop culture icons, real-life heroes who inspire and entertain us; on the other, their struggles and battles are glamorized for all the world to see. Only when the inevitable happens are the answers to the tough questions sought out.
How have movies affected drug use in popular culture?
To that effect, films often reproduced misconceptions about drugs (like marijuana in 1937’s Reefer Madness, originally entitled Tell Your Children, a movie that is today regarded as one of the worst movies of all time), which had the effect of significantly pushing drugs to the margins of popular culture. 12
Is ‘Riverdale’s Jingle-Jangle’ a drug?
In the popular TV show “Riverdale,” high school aged students are seen drinking scotch and frequenting parties, also showing drug use with the made up party drug named “Jingle-Jangle”— which is shown to in a Pixy Stix straw like the candy’s brand of flavored sugar.