Match each response to the adaptation of Merton’s five that it represents.

• Conformity → Works hard in a legitimate job and hopes for promotion
• Innovation → Pursues wealth through fraud after legitimate routes close
• Ritualism → Follows every office procedure exactly while abandoning any ambition
• Retreatism → Withdraws from both the goal and the means altogether
• Rebellion → Rejects both and organises to replace them with different ones

Ritualism is the adaptation students find hardest, because it does not look like deviance. The ritualist breaks no rules at all; they have simply stopped believing in what the rules are for, and go on performing them. Merton’s point is that a strain in the social structure can show up as excessive conformity just as readily as as crime.