Describe how studying culture as a transaction is different from studying culture in structural or geographic terms.
What will be an ideal response?
Studying culture as a transaction focuses on how culture is created symbolically
through communication and reinforced through relationships with others. Structural
discussions of cultural characteristics treat culture very broadly and categorically.
People belong to many cultures and “speak” culture each time they communicate.
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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Laura comes from an upper-class Christian family. When she started dating Ben, who is nonreligious and from working-class background, her family was not accepting of their relationship. This is an example of how
a. intercultural relationships often involve multiple and intersecting cultural differences, including class and religion. b. religious differences matter more than class differences in intercultural relationships. c. class differences matter more than religious differences in intercultural relationships. d. class and religious differences do not matter as long as they share the same racial background.