The stories about Eliza Doolittle from Pygmalion and the extract from Dalton Conley's Honkey illustrate that:
a. George Bernard Shaw and Dalton Conley knew how to manipulate people.
b. if you properly flatter a person, you can get him/her to do what you want.
c. social reality is constructed by persons in the process of interaction.
d. people come into interactions with no preconceived definition of the situation.
C
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