According to Robert Merton's strain theory, the term correctly describes the behavior of a school "dropout" who rejects both cultural goals and the conventional means to reach them. innovator ritualist retreatist rebel

The answer is retreatist

Explanation:

An individual is considered, regarded or termed as retreatist when such individual reject acceptable cultural goals and the socially acceptable means of achieving the goals.

For example, a student drops out of school because he/she rejects the cultural/societal goal that one must have to graduate from school and secure a good job.

The school dropout would go on to find new ways of living a good life without attending school or working a good job. Thus, he/she has succeeded in rejecting both the goal of graduating from school as well as having a good job.

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