A person needing to have his or her car repaired can go to a muffler store, a transmission shop, a tire retailer, or a gas station for a tune-up. Talcott Parsons refers to this type of specialization as
A. exclusion.
B. differentiation.
C. adaptive upgrading.
D. inclusion.
Answer: C
Sociology
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