Adler and Adler suggest that cyber communities represent a sense of Gemeinschaft within a Gesellschaft world. What does this mean?
a. There is a greater sense of culture, customs, and manners on the Internet than in real-life situations, a surprising finding about community in America.
b. Cyber communities provide people with a sense of community and belongingness in what is otherwise an abstract, alienating, and anonymous world.
c. Previously, we had houses of worships, neighborhoods, and family that kept us together, but today there are no substitutes for these moribund institutions.
d. The Germans have been leaders in Internet technology, and with the advances they have made in the last decade, the Internet has become a democratized tool available to almost everyone.
B
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Fill in the blanks with correct word
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a. the Japanese place more emphasis on the parent-child relationship than on the relationship between husbands and wives. b. the white, middle-class families place more emphasis on the parent-child relationship than the Japanese families. c. the white, middle-class families place more emphasis on the parent-child relationship than on husband-wife relationships. d. the Japanese families place more emphasis on the husband-wife relationship than white, middle-class families.
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A. limits opportunities to explore unexpressed and unresolved grief. B. can be academically intriguing. C. brings insights causing intense feelings of guilt about a loved one's death. D. increases death anxiety and restricts us from coming to terms with our own mortality.