Drawing on the functionalist perspective, Talcott Parsons and Robert Bales maintained that families

A. should assign women to be the instrumental leader.
B. should occasionally alternate between having instrumental and expressive leaders.
C. should make the instrumental leader subordinate to the expressive leader.
D. need both an instrumental and an expressive leader.


Answer: D

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