Answer: False. The norm of noninvolvement is more likely to apply to rural and suburban dwellers than city dwellers.
Explanation: City dwellers are more likely to have the norm of noninvolvement applied to them. Noninvolvement is the absence of being involved or having emotional attachment with something. These people are completely withdrawn from all levels of politics, war and government relations.
Tom's rationalization serves to <span>reduce his cognitive dissonance
Cognitive dissonance refers to a situation where a person possess inconsistent belief, behavior, or personal opinion.
The consumption of marijuana usually impair our reasoning capabilities which make us more prone to cognitive dissonance.</span>
i think it may be the second one
In markets where competition is very intense, companies are not able to keep on competing in prices forever, as at some point their cost structures prevents sucessive price lowerings. Therefore, companies are forced to use alternative strategies to defeat their competitors and to attract larger shares of consumers to demand their products.
<u>Companies need to become more efficient in production and to introduce innovations</u>. An example of an efficiency increase is to produce at the same cost, maintaining the same market price but delivering a higher-quality product, that includes, for instance, a better packaging. This new feature has been achieved through the implementation of a new tecnique in the production process (ex: new materials for the packaging) together with an innovative and sucessful marketing campaign.