The Chicago school of symbolic interaction proposes that people account for meaning in two ways. Meaning can be intrinsically attached to an object or event. Secondly, people can impose meaning on the object, event, or phenomenon. What is this second way of deriving meaning called?
A) Empathy
B) Psychical accretion
C) Definitions of a situation
D) Twenty-statement test
B
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a. be interchangeable with cybernetic theory b. provide the underpinning for much of family therapy theory c. be too narrow a concept because of its specific references to feedback mechanisms d. arise from research at the Mental Research Institute
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A. The patient has a mental illness B. The courts determine that the mentally ill patient must be punished C. The institution provides the patient with the most comprehensive treatment available D. The patient is a risk to himself or herself but refuses to sign a commitment for appropriate treatment
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A) women of color. B) never-married women. C) married women. D) working women.