According to Merton,____ pursue the cultural goal of wealth only through legitimate institutional means.

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Conformists, according to Merton's strain theory, pursue the cultural goal of wealth through legitimate institutional means such as education or working hard within the existing economic system, without breaking any laws or norms. Rebels challenge the cultural goals and institutional means altogether, whereas ritualists abandon the cultural goals but conform to the institutional means. Innovators pursue the cultural goals of wealth but use unconventional, sometimes illegal means to achieve them.

According to Merton,____ Pursue the Cultural Goal of Wealth Only