You Are on a Number of Student Committees at Your

question 51

Multiple Choice

You are on a number of student committees at your University/College which has put you in the position of volunteering at back-to-back events during orientation.You have just finished running a sexuality education booth where you were demonstrating proper condom use techniques and are now setting up a booth for international students.Your co-volunteer arrives to help you with the booth and,in an enthusiastic manner,grabs a coloured condom that was hanging out of your pocket,and begins to blow it up like a balloon.You burst out laughing but your colleague looks at you in complete confusion.Which is the BEST description of how symbolic interaction theory might describe what has taken place?

• A)Co-operation between two individuals achieves most goals.
• B)An object takes on meaning in relation to a person's plans.
• C)Mistakes occur when people do not verbally communicate.
• D)Being able to place one's self in another's shoes.

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