Overview
Review the articles found from the links below and chose one article on which to write your paper.
- Internet plagiarism in higher education: tendencies, triggering factors and reasons among teacher candidates
- Cheating in Higher Education: The Case of Multi-Methods Cheaters
- Academic Dishonesty: Behaviors, Sanctions, and Retention of Adjudicated College Students
- To Cheat or Not to Cheat: Academic Dishonesty in the College Classroom
- Academic Dishonesty: Are More Students Cheating?
As you read, consider how educational goals and the American value placed on educational success could produce strain as detailed by sociologist Robert Merton.
Then write a short paper that applies Merton's Anomie Theory "modes of adaptation" to educational cheating.
For your paper, begin with a summary of your selected article. What form or forms of academic dishonesty were presented? What rationalization, motivations, neutralizations, excuses, or contextual considerations for cheating were detailed?
Write a paper responding to these questions: Which of Merton's adaptations (ritualists, rebelling, innovation, or retreatism) best apply to the article? Why?