Every community has a value system. There is a pattern of acceptable goals and acceptable means for striving toward them. Individual and groups have status in a community to the extent that they have accepted and achieved (by approved means) the important “community” goals. Every group has a status in the community, whose members rank it in, relationship to coexisting groups. Where and how a group is ranked depends to a degree upon how consistent its goals, objectives, and means are with the general community values. Related to its status is its role-or what the community expects it to do. At any given time how or more groups may be competing for a given stats position. Any or all of these forces may affect the goals the group sets, and how it attempt and how hard it will work to accomplish them.