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A Psychology Class Has Been Assigned an Individual Case Study

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A psychology class has been assigned an individual case study project as well as a group project.The members of the group will receive the same grade for the group project but will be graded separately for their individual projects.Drew, Ben, Donna, and Julia are members of one such group.Drew and Donna worked very hard on the group project.Ben and Julia, however, did not contribute much to the group project because they felt that Drew and Donna would manage to get good grades for the group project.They focused their efforts on their individual projects instead.Ben and Julia's behavior is an example of:

Acknowledge the importance of large-scale social structures and institutions in shaping societal behavior and interactions according to structural functionalism.

Understand Robert Merton's challenges to certain postulates within functionalism, such as universal functionalism and the postulate of indispensability.

Distinguish between manifest functions, dysfunctions, and latent functions as defined by Robert Merton.

Recognize the significance of status-role complex within the social system.

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