Joanna's parents promised her that they will buy her a car for college if she graduates from high school with honors.  As a result, Joanna hired and paid college students to do her projects and submitted them as her own work. Robert Merton would classify Joanna's actions as ______.

A. conformity
B. innovation
C. ritualism
D. retreatism


Answer: B

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