What Is One Reason Sociologists Are Concerned with Civil Inattention

question 48

Multiple Choice

What is one reason sociologists are concerned with civil inattention, which appears to be a rather unconscious behavior?

• A) If an individual implies to another person that he is not suspicious of the other's behavior, there is no reason to be hostile toward the other person whose social life is allowed to proceed in an orderly fashion.
• B) Allowing sociologists to see how people openly express their emotions toward others gives them vital information in nonverbal communication.
• C) Seeing individual unconscious behavior lends sociologists great insight into mob and riot mentality.
• D) Determining the function of civil inattention allows sociologists to understand the conforming nature of interaction.

---

Definitions:

Mechanistic

An approach in understanding phenomena that involves breaking down complex systems into simpler parts to explain how they work.

Rigidly Defined

Described or specified with strictness and inflexibility.

Flexible

Capable of bending easily without breaking; adaptable to change or capable of being modified to suit different conditions or uses.

Natural Selection

A fundamental mechanism of evolution where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.