Sentence examples for the institutionalized means from inspiring English sources
Welfare is not one of the institutionalized means, and the ritualist prefers to stay farther away from the goal than to cross the line to non-institutionalized means.
Obviously, the vast majority of Americans don't achieve these goals and it is extremely hard to argue that the institutionalized means will actually lead them there.
He also challenges the institutionalized means by calling for an increase in the number of people achieving this new goal - a stable home - specifically through quality rental housing, with government assistance, rather than through hard work alone.
In American society, the institutionalized means are study hard/work hard (and maybe go to church every so often), and the cultural goals are accumulate wealth and own a house.
The goal's support structure recognizes in a sense that, with only the purist version of the institutionalized means (hard work with no government assistance), the goal is out of reach.
"The traditional institutionalized means for getting people together are not working as well as they did previously," said Norval Glenn, a sociology professor at the University of Texas.
They deserve government support; they deserve stability; and, they don't deserve to have to break away from the American institutionalized means.
The followers, for their part, lack institutionalized means of making their influence felt, such as referendums, legislatures, or periodic elections of leaders.
Being institutionalized means that a patient is at the mercy of staff members, their rules and his or her own limiting infirmities, often a ruthless combination.
In the paper, Merton argues that every society has cultural goals, "a frame of aspirational references," and institutionalized means, "permissible and required procedures for attaining these ends".
Goals may become so important that if the institutionalized means i.e., those means acceptable according to the standards of the society fail, illegitimate means might be used.
