An employee at a welfare office is so concerned with paperwork that he does not have time to administer to the needs of the poor, hungry, and homeless individuals who seek assistance. According to Merton’s theory, this welfare worker would be a (an):

An innovator

Explanation: accordito Merton's, an innovator is somebody agrees to societial or culture goals but uses any other means of necessary of his own accord to acheive the goals without using the normal or approved way. It is a deviant behavior because the individual uses means that is not in line with the approved or legitimate means(ways).

- "instead, differing christian groups often believed that their own practices and faiths and the reforming puritans, contributing to an english civil war in the 1600s. indians, and they were the first to issue a public condemnation of slavery in america. up a wave of religious fervor and the beginning of the great awakening."

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i believe the answer is:   psychological  experiment

in this experiment, wilhelm wundt became the first person that implement scientific method in analyzing the pyschological phenomenon.

due to this result, wilhelm wundt also able to make psychology to be acknowledged as a separate scientific field from biology.