Betty has just taken a position with a different corporation. She is quite frustrated because workers in her new office have a different approach than what she is used to. Her co-workers use terms that she has not heard before and have their own ways of dividing the work and covering for each other. Betty is reacting to:

a. a subculture.
b. cultural diffusion.
c. a counterculture.
d. changing mores.


a

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