A woman who was socialized from infancy to become a wife and a mother settles comfortably into being a homemaker in her twenties and early thirties. However, her husband dies suddenly, and the woman finds that she must enter the paid labor force in order to support herself and her two children. This woman will most likely have to undergo a process of:
A. resocialization.
B. reverse socialization.
C. socialization.
D. anticipatory socialization.
Answer: A
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