that puts us to the test. Picture this, you and your friends are done with college and ready to start your careers. Your friends already have jobs lined up for them. Everyone considers them successful because they will gain wealth or prestige. You, on the other hand, are tense and frustrated because you struggled in school and were unable to gain equitable access to institutionalized means or legitimate ways to achieve cultural goals. Society puts pressure on individuals to achieve cultural goals when they do not have the institutionalized means, this leads to tensions that ultimately lead them to commit crimes. There are four deviant paths to which individuals respond. Innovation is the path in which individuals use illicit methods to achieve these goals. Ritualism is the path in which individuals reject the goals of society, but accept the institutionalized means of society. The third path is retreat, where individuals reject both cultural goals and institutionalized means. Rebellion is a person who rejects and replaces cultural goals and rejects and replaces institutionalized means (Backyard Sociology,