If You Were to Use a Functionalist Perspective to Understand

Multiple Choice

If you were to use a functionalist perspective to understand shopping and consumption,the focus of your analysis would likely be on what?

A) power relations and disparities in disposable income
B) how people give meaning to their shopping behaviour
C) the pressures on people to continually purchase the newest products
D) the secondary consequences of shopping,such as providing an opportunity to socialize with friends