Functional prerequisites are
A. tasks that a society or relatively permanent group must accomplish if it is to survive.
B. attempts to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.
C. social relationships that link a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.
D. organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.
Answer: A
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