In ancient times, the oral communication system operated in an environment…
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In ancient times, the oral communication system operated in an environment that was:
Answer: C. Non-representative — ConceptA communication-system typology relates a society’s dominant mode of public communication to broader social attributes. In Daniel Lerner’s ideal-type…
- A.
Literate
- B.
Urban
- C.
Non-representative
- D.
Mediated
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Correct answer: C
Concept
A communication-system typology relates a society’s dominant mode of public communication to broader social attributes. In Daniel Lerner’s ideal-type matrix, a media system is associated with an urban, representative, and literate profile, whereas an oral system is associated with a rural, non-representative, and illiterate profile.
These are analytical correlations: individual societies may contain mixed features, but the paired profiles show the direction of the model.
Application
The stem asks for an environmental attribute associated with the ancient oral communication system.
Reading the oral-system column of the model gives rural for the socioeconomic attribute, non-representative for the political attribute, and illiterate for the cultural attribute.
Among the offered values, only Non-representative occurs in that oral-system profile.
Literate and Urban belong to the contrasting media-system profile, while Mediated describes communication through an intervening medium rather than the stated oral environment.
Contrast
System | Socioeconomic | Political | Cultural |
|---|---|---|---|
Media | Urban | Representative | Literate |
Oral | Rural | Non-representative | Illiterate |
Mediated describes a communication process carried through an intervening channel or organized medium; it is not an environmental attribute in the profile matrix.
Cross-check
Switching from the oral profile to the media profile changes the associated attributes to urban, representative, and literate. This reverse comparison excludes Literate and Urban from the oral profile and confirms Non-representative as the uniquely supported offered value.
Therefore, the answer is Non-representative.