According to Symbolic Interactionists, Culture

question 116

Multiple Choice

According to symbolic interactionists, culture

• A) serves the interests of powerful groups.
• B) creates group identity from diverse cultural meaning.
• C) provides coherence and stability to society.
• D) is unpredictable and constantly changing.

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Definitions:

Carl Rogers

An influential American psychologist who founded the person-centered approach to therapy, emphasizing the importance of empathy, unconditional positive regard, and congruence in therapeutic settings.

Humanistic Therapy

Type of therapy in which the goal is to help the client discover his or her place in the world and to accomplish self-actualization through self-exploration; based on the assumption that the natural tendency for humans is toward growth (also called person-centered therapy).

Self-Exploration

The process of examining one's own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in order to gain insight.

Collective Unconscious

A theory proposing that societies share a set of memories and ideas inherited from their ancestors, independent of personal experience.