Which of the following cases is the best example of an instance of social contagion? a shopper notices a sign in the electronics store saying that supplies of a certain tablet are limited. the shopper decides to buy the tablet based on this information. a politician gives a very moving speech in which he argues that the nation is superior to all other nations. the crowd cheers very loudly. a teacher in a school smells gasoline and begins to feel nauseous; soon most of the school's population is also feeling nauseous. later, it is discovered that there was never a gas leak. a person is suffering from a severe injury on the side of the road. however, people driving by fail to stop to even though they notice the injured person.

The answer is: A teacher in a school smells gasoline and begins to feel nauseous; soon most of the schools population is also feeling nauseous. Later, it is discovered that there was never a gas leak.

Social contagion refer to a social phenomenon when the behavior that displayed by a certain individual create a chain of reaction that make other people around him/her start to display the same behavior . (such as when the students mimic the nauseous behavior after they observe their teacher did it)

Social contagion tend to have a stronger effect if the person who initiate the contagious behavior is in the position of authority/importance (such the teachers in school environment or Actors in film set)

panem is a communist totalitarian dictatorship where all the resources and how they are allocated belongs to the capitol. the districts exist only to provide goods and services for the capital and most of the citizens live in poverty. it is a police state where the "peacekeepers" use force and threats to keep the people under control. dissent is outlawed and those who disobey the law are executed, flogged, or turned into avoxes. the games are another means in which the ruling elite in the capitol exert their power over the districts. when reading the books i drew parallels between panem and the soviet union and north korea. in no way is panem capitalist. the people in the capitol are wealthy but the majority of them are involved in the government somehow. it was the same way in the former soviet union where bigwigs in the communist party and high ranking government officials were given access to goods, services, medical treatments not available to the general public. if you think panem has a capitalist economy you need to brush up on your economics.