The intersubjective approach treats individuals within societies as quasi-rational arbiters of societal norms. Which of the following illustrates this approach?
A) After interviewing a number of people from a community, you later find out they were not truthful in their answers to you.
B) A group of people from a community you interviewed behaved in a cooperative manner even though a small percentage of them may have wanted to compete with others.
C) Before interviewing people from a community, you have to gain access to them from elders within the community.
D) You need to interview fathers first, then mothers, then children, then community activists in order to get the appropriate information from that community.

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The intersubjective approach focuses on how individuals within a society navigate and negotiate societal norms together, often leading to cooperative behavior despite individual desires to act differently. Choice B illustrates this by showing how a group collectively behaves in a cooperative manner, even if some members might prefer competition, reflecting the intersubjective negotiation of societal norms.

The Intersubjective Approach Treats Individuals Within Societies as Quasi-Rational Arbiters