When Murdock notes that "all groups are constantly engaged in creating and remaking meaning systems and embodying these meanings in expressive forms, social practices, and institutions," he is referring to ________.

A. the theater of struggle
B. negotiated decoding
C. hegemony
D. the pervasiveness of culture

Answer: D

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