The participants who acted as "teachers" in Milgram's classic social control experiment obeying the experimenter's orders to shock the "learner" were described by Milgram as acting obediently, because they were accustomed to submitting to impersonal authority figures in the social world. Which sociological perspective explains the organization of North American society in this way?
A) feminists
B) conflict theorists
C) functionalists
D) symbolic interactionists

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Functionalists view society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability, and they would explain obedience to authority as a necessary function for maintaining social order.

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