A young girl decides that she wants to become an Olympic swimmer. She takes swimming lessons, joins her school's swimming team, reads magazine articles about champion swimmers, and goes to swimming meets at a nearby college. This is an example of
A. anticipatory socialization.
B. resocialization.
C. desocialization.
D. reverse socialization.
Answer: A
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A. reflexivity B. hypersexuality C. consumptive beauty D. adolescence
Karen is a sociologist studying women's experiences of oppression in developing nations and in the United States. Her work is likely to be informed by
a. the conservative viewpoint b. monocultural feminism c. global feminism d. socialist feminism
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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
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a. ego b. libido c. superego d. id