Internationalist theory posits that society is created and maintained through which process?

• A. Economic structures alone
• B. Social interaction
• C. Genetic predispositions
• D. Geographic determinism

Answer: (B)

The idea being tested is that social life is built and kept going through everyday social interactions and the meanings people attach to them. In the interactionist view, symbols, language, gestures, and shared interpretations shape how we define roles, norms, and institutions. These micro-level interactions continually produce and reproduce social order, so society is sustained by the ongoing negotiation and interpretation people do in daily life.

This focus on how people actively create and interpret social reality explains why social interaction is the best answer. Economic structures alone emphasize broad, macro-level forces; genetic predispositions point to biology, not the social meaning-making process; geographic determinism highlights environment over human interaction. In sport, for example, teams establish norms and identities through practice, conversation, and shared rituals, demonstrating how social reality is produced through interaction.