The Board of Directors of Athens College, historically a women's college, voted to become a coeducational institution. Students were outraged and engaged in a two-week protest. Professor McCaslin of the sociology department studied the dispute and the social action of the students. His explanation of this social phenomenon would likely be cast in which sociological perspective?
A) conflict
B) conservative
C) functionalist
D) humanist

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The conflict perspective in sociology focuses on the power dynamics and struggles between different groups, which aligns with the students' protest against the decision to become coeducational.

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