In a study about attitudes towards higher education, four subjects are asked to rank the relative importance of higher education. all four participants rank higher education as "very important" or "extremely important" on the survey. which of the following participants is most likely to experience cognitive dissonance as a part of this response? (a) a master electrician who has significant advanced on-the-job training but no degree(b) a day laborer whose own education stopped at seventh grade and whose family includes no one who has attended any college(c) a high school math teacher who encouraged his own son to skip college and focus on learning a trade to "save all that wasted tuition money"(d) a university professor with two doctoral degrees who has actively advocated for significant reform in the country's higher education system

What are the functions of wal-mart? are they the same or different from the functions of wal-mart in our individual lives? how do the two type of functions connect? does wal-mart have both manifest and latent functions? what are they? are there any dysfunctions of wal-mart for society? if so, what are they? how might these dysfunctions serve as incentives or catalysts for social change? conflict questions: does wal-mart affect every group in society in the same way? if not, what are the differences? how does wal-mart perpetuate the inequalities (of gender, race, class, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc.) in our society? how does wal-mart contribute to conflict between unequal groups in our society? how might wal-mart contribute to social change or the amelioration of inequalities in society? interactionist questions: what kind of symbolic world are you likely to encounter inside a wal-mart store, and how does that affect the shopper’s experience? how does wal-mart influence our interpersonal interactions? how do interpersonal interactions shape the wal-mart experience for shoppers? for workers? how does wal-mart contribute to our socially constructed reality?