Based on what you have read in this chapter, how would sociologists explain the fact that many young people in the United States experience adolescence as a time of confusion?
a. There are cultural inconsistencies in the definition of this stage of life as partly childlike and partly adultlike.
b. Hormones greatly affect young people as they mature.
c. Growth always involves change and change is confusing.
d. Parents are no longer providing proper guidance to young people.
a
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