What form or forms of academic dishonesty were presented?
Cheating in Higher Education: The Case of Multi-Methods CheatersAcademic Dishonesty: Behaviors, Sanctions, and Retention of Adjudicated College StudentsTo Cheat or Not to Cheat: Academic Dishonesty in the College ClassroomAcademic 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?
