Merton

(mʉrt'n)

Merton, Thomas 1915-68; U.S. monk & writer

borough of SW Greater London, England: pop. 168,000

See Merton in American Heritage Dictionary 4

American sociologist who proposed that deviant behavior results when a society offers no acceptable means of achieving acceptable goals.

, Thomas 1915-1968.

American Trappist monk and writer of works on contemporary spiritual and secular life, including The Seven Story Mountain (1948) and No Man Is an Island (1955).
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