What groups of people are involved? What do they believe? What do they want? How do these individuals or groups go about getting what they want? What worked or didn't work, and why?
What can be learned from the choices of individuals or groups?

As nina and erin were eating lunch in the central high school student cafeteria, they were discussing the news coverage about the girls' athletic coach being arrested for selling steroids to student athletes. "i think the guy just did it because they don't pay teachers enough money," nina suggested. "i bet the guy had some other kind of drug addiction he was trying to pay for," erin countered. nina and erin's ideas about the cause of the coach's drug-selling behavior are examples of: