a factor that would determine whether or not people are in the poverty culture is social participation since ignorance of the forms of organization and functioning of groups outside the family would cause integration attempts to fail and thus generate despair miller lewis nonetheless criticisms also began to be made of some of the implications of hypotheses such as the culture of poverty and the need to culturally rehabilitate the poorest people to overcome deprivation doubts also emerged about the causal role of cultural and psychosocial factors in the historicalstructural perspective it was argued that marginality was not the outcome of a lack of integration but represented a way of participating in dependent capitalism the survival strategies of the poor were thus forms of adaptation and not expressions of a subculture social regulation is defined as the moral demands imposed on the individual as a result of group membership whereas social integration is the extent to which social relations expose people to the moral demands of the group bearman