The theory that best explains Abe's change of attitude towards his action is the Cognitive Dissonance theory.
Cognitive Dissonance is the mental discomfort produced by the <em>contradictory beliefs</em> that a person holds. In this case, Abe suffers from cognitive dissonance as a result of copying answers from his classmate in the exam. In order to relieve from this stress, he tries to <em>justify</em> his action by denying his wrongdoing and transferring responsibility to his classmate by claiming he did not do enough in order to prevent him from copying.
The Era of Good Feelings<span> marked a period on da political history of thee United States that reflected a sense of national purpose and a desire for unity among Americans in the aftermath of the </span>War of 1812
<u>Functionalism:</u>
This is one of the important sociological perspective and is also known as consensus theory.
<u>Explanation:</u>
Functionalist perspective postulates that every aspect of society is responsible for its stability and proper functioning as each aspect or part of it is interdependent on other. Some of the sociologists who propagated this perspective were Emile Durkheim, Robert Merton and Talcott Parsons.
One example of functionalism is that government offers education to children of the country so that tomorrow that can support their near and dear ones and the funds which are used by government for providing education is the money of citizens only collected through taxes. So, here citizens and government are interdependent on each other.
History. The California Gold Rush began at Sutter's Mill<span>, near Coloma. On January 24, 1848, </span>James W. Marshall<span>, a foreman working for Sacramento pioneer </span>John Sutter<span>, found shiny metal in the tailrace of a lumber mill Marshall was building for </span>Sutter<span> on the American River. Search google you'll find it.</span>