Today,using the Wrong Fork to Eat a Salad at a Dinner

question 7

Multiple Choice

Today,using the wrong fork to eat a salad at a dinner party would NOT usually qualify as deviance.Why NOT?

• A) American society no longer has rules and etiquette governing which utensil to use for salads.
• B) Most dinners are eaten with friends, who do not apply sanctions for deviant behavior.
• C) There are not norms governing food and eating.
• D) It is not a serious enough norm violation to provoke sanctions.

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Definitions:

Product Variety

The range of different products or services offered by a company or available in a market, catering to diverse customer tastes and needs.

Allocative Efficiency

A state of the economy in which production represents consumer preferences; in particular, every good or service is produced up to the point where the last unit provides a marginal benefit to society equal to the marginal cost of producing it.

Monopolistically Competitive

A competitive framework where numerous companies offer goods that are alike but not the same, leading to competition revolving around quality, price, and brand recognition.

Purely Competitive

An economic setup distinguished by the presence of numerous small companies, an identical product, and extremely simple processes for entering or leaving the market.