Name and describe the four categories of identity status.
What will be an ideal response?
(1) Identity diffusion, a lack of exploration and commitment, is the least mature status. (2) Having not engaged in any exploration, individuals who are in the identity foreclosed status have prematurely chosen an identity. (3) An active exploration of ideas and a sense of openness to possibilities, coupled with some uncertainty, characterize the moratorium status. (4) The identity achieved status requires that individuals construct a sense of self through exploring and committing to a particular set of ideas, values, and beliefs.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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What will be an ideal response?
During a train trip in Louisiana in the 1890s, Homer Plessy wanted to sit in a "whites only" railroad car, but because of his ancestry (he had a black great-grandparent), he was not allowed, by law, to sit in this car. He took his claim to court; the U.S. Supreme Court eventually ruled that
A. he should have been allowed to sit anywhere he wanted. B. the statute that segregated railroad cars by race did not fail to give Plessy equal protection under the law. C. the statute that segregated railroad cars by race failed to give Plessy equal protection under the law. D. none of the above (this case never went to the Supreme Court)
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