According to Merton,____ pursue the cultural goal of wealth through illegitimate means.

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Innovators are individuals who are unable to achieve the cultural goal of wealth through legitimate means and thus resort to illegitimate means such as theft or drug dealing. Rebels reject the cultural goal altogether and seek to create their own cultural values and goals. Ritualists accept the means or method of achieving wealth but are not particularly concerned with attaining the goal itself. Conformists adhere to the cultural goal and means of achieving it without questioning or deviating from them.

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