TOL250

Symbolic interaction occurs at which level

• Macro

• Meso

• Micro

Society is like an organism and people are its cells

• Functionalism

• Symbolic interaction

• Conflict theory

Mass-incarceration is profitable for someone, at the expense of communities

• Functionalism

• Symbolic interaction

• Conflict theory

Who was known as the father of sociology?

• Émile Durkheim

• Auguste Comte

• Max Weber

Which of the following is considered poor etiquette in Japan?

• Offering a gift with two hands

• Placing your chopsticks upright in your food

• Taking off your shoes before entering someone's home

The ability to face and adjust or adapt to new situations in a culture that is different from the individual's own culture

• Intercultural resistibility

• Intercultural consciousness

• Ethnocentrism

When communicating with people who don't speak your language as their first language what is the best strategy?

• Speak more slowly and loudly than usual to avoid any misunderstanding

• Speak naturally but make sure you avoid using colloquial language, jargon and idioms that may be difficult to understand

• Identify someone who speaks the language of the person you are interacting with and get them to translate for you

What do you understand by ethnocentrism?

• Operating in an environment where everyone is from the same culture

• Experience your own and other cultures as relative to the context

• Judging people from another culture only by the values and standards of your own culture

In Dubai (in the United Arab Emirates)...

• Your meeting may be interrupted for prayer

• The exchange of business cards is simultaneous: you offer yours with your right hand and receive that of the other with your left hand

• Coffee is served at the beginning of the meeting

A factor that leaves one with no choice but to leave one's current home (especially parental home), country, region, organization, or religion

• Distribution

• Pull factor

• Push factor