Pre-modern societies were better able than modern societies to cope informally with individuals who acted in unacceptable and incomprehensible ways because pre-modern societies
a. ?could offer those individuals acceptable, low-level roles.
b. ?could often cure illness through prayer.
c. ?generated little stress.
d. ?killed such individuals before puberty.
e. ?developed religious institutions to control such individuals.
ANSWER:
a
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