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Do you understand this?

"Great cultural emphasis upon the success- goal invites this mode of adaptation through the use of institutionally proscribed but often effective means of attaining at least the simulacrum of success- wealth and power."

ok2, this is quite easy. understandable.

try this one,

"This orientation toward change and risk- taking, accentuated by the strain of frustrated aspirations, may help explain the marked interest in gambling- an institutionally proscribed or at best permitted rather that preferred or prescribed mode of activity- within certain social strata."

and this one,

"For if success is primarily a matter of luck, if it is just in the blind nature of things, if it bloweth where it listeth and thou canst not tell whence in cometh or whither it goeth, then surely it is beyond control and will occur in the same measure whatever the social structure."

this is only 1 page out of 35 pages.bleergh!!!

all the best sayda~ aminn