You have purchased a ‘smart phone’ which has a battery system advertised as allowing 22 hours of ‘talk time’ before it requires recharging. A friend of yours advises you that it is a good phone, but the 22 hours of ‘talk time’ is a highly theoretical number, based on ideal conditions concerning the placement of the phone towers around you as you talk, the exact number of calls you initiated while talking, and the state of the battery when you last charged the phone. As a result of these issues, your friend warns you that you can generally only expect 20 hours of ‘talk time’ from the battery system. Based on this discussion with your friend, the issue concerning the actual placement of the phone towers around you as you talk is best described by which of these concepts? a. the effective capacity of the phone battery system b. a point of indifference in the phone battery system c. the utilization of the phone battery system d. the design capacity of the phone battery system e. a determinant of the effective capacity of the phone battery system

What are the functions of wal-mart? are they the same or different from the functions of wal-mart in our individual lives? how do the two type of functions connect? does wal-mart have both manifest and latent functions? what are they? are there any dysfunctions of wal-mart for society? if so, what are they? how might these dysfunctions serve as incentives or catalysts for social change? conflict questions: does wal-mart affect every group in society in the same way? if not, what are the differences? how does wal-mart perpetuate the inequalities (of gender, race, class, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc.) in our society? how does wal-mart contribute to conflict between unequal groups in our society? how might wal-mart contribute to social change or the amelioration of inequalities in society? interactionist questions: what kind of symbolic world are you likely to encounter inside a wal-mart store, and how does that affect the shopper’s experience? how does wal-mart influence our interpersonal interactions? how do interpersonal interactions shape the wal-mart experience for shoppers? for workers? how does wal-mart contribute to our socially constructed reality?