Two people are standing together in an elevator,but they do not speak to each other or look each other in the eye.Erving Goffman called this type of interaction
A) focused interaction.
B) interactional vandalism.
C) civil inattention.
D) compulsion of proximity.

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Civil inattention is a social norm where individuals in close proximity, such as in an elevator, acknowledge each other's presence without engaging in direct interaction.

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