Question

Today, Steve went into a grocery store where a stranger checked out his purchases and another stranger bagged his groceries. Then he went to a fast-food restaurant and purchased a hamburger from another stranger, and on his way home he stopped at an intersection, where an unknown police officer raised her hand. These experiences are all characteristic of:_________.

Answer 1

Answer:

Gesellschaft relationships.

Explanation:

It states that the human relationships are more impersonal and indirect. They are rationally constructed in the efficiency interest and other considerations like political and economics.

being rationally constructed in the interest of efficiency or other economic and political considerations.

Answer 2

Answer:

The happenings are all a reflection of Gesellschaft relationships

Explanation:

German sociologist Ferdinand Tonnies wrote in his book Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft in 1887 about how we interact in a traditional society and modern society.

Gemeinschaft refers to where  traditional family and kinship determines how individual relate in the society which is true of  peasant lives in the rural areas, where relationship is strengthened by traditional social rules other than economic gains.

Gesellschaft on the other hand, is the opinion that forming relationships in a modern society should find its root in rational self-interest and the traditional bonds of relationships should weakened to give way for a society built around rational behavior and the love for self interest actualization

All in all, in the scenario,Steve does not have to be familiar with the people he had encountered with before he can actualize his self of interest of shopping.