People in this category accept societies' goals but use socially unapproved or unconventional means to strive for them.

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5 different terms created by Merton to describe how people view the means to achieve agoal and how they feel about a goal

Goals and Means Disjuncture

Schmalleger, F. (2014). Criminology (The Justice Series). Criminology (2nd ed.). Pearson. https://archive.org/details/criminology0000schm. 

Criminology (The Justice Series)

Conformity is the tendency for individuals to alter their behavior to align with a group, a phenomenon often driven by the power of a social situation. People may conform even when the group's information is inaccurate, motivated by a desire to fit in or a belief that the group is knowledgeable.

Conformity

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Do not believe the goals of society are legitimate or real but the opportunity to do them are

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