Casey could not believe that her friends were going on to college after high school. She found it much more important to try to overthrow the current government, and she planned to chain herself to the capital building and stage a hunger strike until her demands were met. Merton would argue that Casey was coping with strain through:

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Merton's strain theory suggests that individuals may cope with strain through five modes of adaptation: conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism, and rebellion. Rebellion involves rejecting both cultural goals and traditional means of achieving them and instead creating new goals and means. Casey's plan of trying to overthrow the government through dramatic means goes against traditional means of achieving success and represents a rebellion against the current cultural values and goals.

Casey Could Not Believe That Her Friends Were Going on to College