socially legitimized and given a kind of respectability, albeit by a restricted community of fellow adventurers. If one senses that others are prepared to go along if someone makes the first tentative gesture then people will follow. When we are dealing with status frustration. Status, by definition, is a grant of respect from others. A new system of norms, which measures status by criteria which one can meet is of no value unless others are prepared to apply those criteria, and others are not likely to do so unless one is prepared to reciprocate”.
As mentioned before that delinquency may also appear in middle class society. A delinquent subculture of middle class values will have similar aspects of the working class subculture but different frustrations from that of the working class subculture. Delinquency in the middle class will differ in quality as well as