To say, moreover, that cultural goals and institutionalized
norms operate jointly to shape prevailing practices is not to say that
they bear a constant relation to one another. The cultural emphasis
placed upon certain goals varies independently of the degree of emphasis
upon institutionalized means. There may develop a very heavy, at
times a virtually exclusive, stress upon the values of particular goals,
involving comparatively little concern with the institutionally prescribe
means of striving toward these goals. The limiting case of this type
is reached when the range of alternative procedures is governed only by
technical rather than by institutional norms. Any and all procedures
which promise attainment of the all-important goal would be permitted in
this hypothetical polar case. This constitutes one type of malintegrated
culture (1968, p. 187).