What Occurs When We Attach Sacred Meaning to Profane Consumption

question 30

Multiple Choice

What occurs when we attach sacred meaning to profane consumption so that everyday products, people, places, and events are elevated and have a distinctiveness and specialness in the eyes of consumers?

• A) Acculturation
• B) Desacralization
• C) Intersectionality
• D) Sacralization

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Definitions:

Bystander Effect

The phenomenon where individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when other people are present, often due to a diffusion of responsibility.

Mere Exposure Effect

A mental effect where individuals grow fond of something simply due to their familiarity with it.

Social Traps

Situations where a group or individual acts in a way that seems beneficial in the short term but leads to negative outcomes in the long term for everyone involved.

Just-world Phenomenon

The cognitive bias that a person's actions are inherently inclined to bring morally fair and fitting consequences to that person, to the end of all noble actions being rewarded and all evil actions punished.