Karissa Went to a Meeting of the Debate Team and Introduced

question 48

Multiple Choice

Karissa went to a meeting of the debate team and introduced herself as a Sociology major even though she had taken only one course. She did this because she wanted to be taken seriously and if the team saw her as a first-year student she would likely not be invited to join. Karissa is employing which theoretical approach to position herself?

• A) social symbolism
• B) macrostructural positioning
• C) symbolic interactionism
• D) symbolic positioning

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