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According to your text, close personal relationships have ways of meeting certain essential needs that cannot be met in other interpersonal relationships. Which of the following is among those needs?
 
  a. Intimacy
  b. Nurturing and being nurtured
  c. Reassurance of personal worth
  d. All of the above

Question 2

How are exchange relationships different in Western and non-Western cultures, and why are they different?
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

Answer: As compared to more traditional societies, relationships in Western cultures tend to be more freely chosen, voluntary, and less permanent. These differences may be related to differences in mobility; differences in proximity to kin; differences in individualism vs. collectivism.



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