It is in these terms and through these processes that contemporary
American culture continues to be characterized by a heavy emphasis on wealth
as a basic symbol of success, without a corresponding emphasis upon the
legitimate avenues on which to march toward this goal. How do individuals
living in this cultural context respond? And how do our observations
bear upon the doctrine that deviant behavior typically derives from biological
impulses breaking through the restraints imposed by a culture? What,
in short, are the consequences for the behavior of people variously situated
in a social structure of a culture in which the emphasis on dominant success-goals
has become increasingly separated from an equivalent emphasis on institutionalized
procedures for seeking these goals? (1968, p. 193).