Two suspected drug dealers are stopped by the highway patrol for speeding. the officer searches the car and finds a small bag of marijuana and arrests the two. during the interrogation, each is separately offered the following: "if you confess to dealing drugs and testify against your partner, you will be given immunity and released while your partner will get 10 years in prison. if you both confess, you will each get 5 years." if neither confesses, there is no evidence of drug dealing, and the most they could get is one year each for possession of marijuana. if each suspected drug dealer follows a dominant strategy, what should he/she do?

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?