1. What is a symbol? Explain the relationship between a concept and a symbol using an example. Why do we say that symbols are co-created? Why do we say that symbol use perpetuates the status quo?

2.Mead explains a relationship between the "I" and the "Me." What is the "I"? What is the "Me"? What is the relationship between the two?

3. Explain the difference between breadth and depth in terms of self-disclosure. Which layers represent breadth? Which layers represent depth? Which type (breadth/depth; outer/inner) do you learn more of when starting a relationship?

4. Explain why social exchange theory is described as relationship economics and how this helps explain the minimax principle of human behavior?

5. Once someone shares a secret with another person, they are now co-owners of that information. These co-owners must determine new collective privacy boundaries that focus on boundary ______, boundary _____, and boundary _____. Please explain each of these boundaries.

6. What is a strong tie? A weak tie? What is the key strength of weak ties (and, inversely, the key weakness of strong ties)? What are bridging ties? How are they related to the strength of weak ties?

7. Anthropologist Clifford Geertz described culture as webs of significance. Please explain this metaphor in the context of organizational communication.