Identify Psychodynamic theories.
What will be an ideal response?
ANS: Infants develop a sense of self and gender identity by internalizing the views of those they interact with early in life. The relationship with the primary caretaker, typically the mother, is a particularly important relationship. Researcher Nancy Chodorow states that mothers tend to form different relationships with boys and girls. Girls tend to define their identities within a relationship since they identify with their mothers, and boys tend to define themselves by differentiating themselves from their mothers.
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If you take a radical-left point of view, you see the main cause of poverty as
a. personal deficiencies in poor people themselves. b. the normal operation of a capitalist economy. c. misguided government assistance programs. d. modern, industrial technology.
Infants in cultures that promote extensive close contact with their mothers tend to cry more than North American babies.
a. true b. false
In what way did Jencks and his colleagues at Harvard extend the work on social mobility by Blau and Duncan?
What will be an ideal response?
According to the culture-of-poverty thesis, the principal cause of poverty is ______.
A. immediate lack of material resources (e.g., wealth and income) B. capitalism C. a mindset that is “present oriented” and so unconcerned with the future D. urbanization