Legend of Merton III: Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
1. Yes, that’s Robert Merton firing lasers out of his spectacles.
2. Yes, this image is designed to appeal to that narrow segment of the population who is both familiar with the conventions of electronic role-playing games and mid-20th century sociological theory.
3. No, I don’t really buy into Merton’s theory of deviance.
4. Yes, I once wanted to be an artist. Looks like I made the right choice!
a) you should do tons of more drawings for this blog
b) I think you messed up his forms of deviance
I thought I had them all (conformism, ritualism, innovation, and retreatism) with the exception of rebellion, which I did exclude deliberately since it didn’t seem to fit as well as the others.
I stand corrected. Had forgot about retreatism, thought there were 4.