What period of life is most formative in a person’s social identity and outlook?

a. the late teenage years and early adulthood
b. early childhood
c. midlife, especially when a career is well established
d. all periods are equally formative, inasmuch as we are always shifting our identity and outlook


a. the late teenage years and early adulthood

Sociology

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a. fragmented. b. depersonalized. c. more costly. d. all of the above.

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Emotional problems can cause a marriage to deteriorate. As the marriage grows troublesome, the emotional problems intensify, causing the marriage to deteriorate even more. In systems theory, this reflects what is termed the principle of ________.

A. rationality B. circularity C. replication D. functionality

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A cognitive map of how to have sex and with whom is referred to as a __________

A) reciprocal effect B) biological sex C) heterosexual identity D) sexual script

Sociology

What is defined as a complex pattern of racial advantage built into the structure of society?

A. individual racism B. institutional racism C. structural race systems D. racist structuralism

Sociology