They didn't want to bury themselves in ritualism or retreatism.

Retreatism: those who reject socially approved goals and the means for acquiring them.

Fourthly,retreatism, abandoning both the goals and the means, such as'dropping out' of society.

There was also "retreatism" and "rebellion"-rejecting both the goal and the means.

This is the kind of retreatism we have grown accustomed to among our supposed world leaders and it is just what the Kremlin ordered.'

Provides an analysis based on Merton's five kinds of adaptation of individuals to social organisations: conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism and rebellion.

A common deviant alternative is retreatism, one may completely isolate themselves from society, join subcultures or cults, or retreat with drug or alcohol use.

Nor does it explain why one type of adaptation rather than another occurs; for example, why innovation occurs rather than retreatism, or vice-versa.

By the 1960s, on the other hand, it was becoming increasingly difficult for those further up the social scale to avoid the consequences of industrialization any longer- even by indulging in rural retreatism.

They further found that heroin users practiced "retreatism", a behavior first described by Howard Abadinsky, in which those suffering from such strain reject society's goals and institutionalized means of achieving them.

Rebellion is somewhat similar to retreatism, because the people in question also reject both the cultural goals and means, but they go one step further to a "counterculture" that supports other social orders that already exist (rule breaking).

This process of role retreatism that follows from status denial has been described particularly graphically by Riseborough in his study of a group of middle-aged, male secondary modern teachers who had been reorganized into an academically dominated comprehensive.