Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. According to the article Islands of Meaning, ways of classifying reality within cultures tend to stay the same across historical periods.
2. Rites of separation help those who are undergoing a radical social identity transformation create important mental gaps between their old and new selves.
3. Mental gaps between categories are often reflected in the physical world as actual physical gaps.
4. 4. We learn to carve discrete islands of meaning through the process of socialization.


1. False
2. True
3. True
4. True

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