From the __________ Perspectives, People Create, Maintain, and Modify Culture

question 118

Multiple Choice

From the __________ perspectives, people create, maintain, and modify culture as they go about their everyday activities. People continually negotiate their social realities. Values and norms are not independent realities that automatically determine our behavior. Instead, we reinterpret them in each social situation we encounter.

• A)symbolic interactionist
• B)conflict
• C)functionalist
• D)postmodern

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