If the Language of a Highly Individualistic Society Contains Many

question 67

Multiple Choice

If the language of a highly individualistic society contains many words and phrases about personal success and individual achievement that someone from a more communal society has difficulty fully understanding, this is an example of:

• A) resource mobilization.
• B) the material representation of culture.
• C) structural determination.
• D) the linguistic relativity hypothesis.

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