One Way to Understand How We Have Come to the Point

question 51

Multiple Choice

One way to understand how we have come to the point where we accept a society with so many socialization problems is with a model developed by Mead, in her book Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap. In it, Mead postulated a theory of intergenerational relations that reflects three stages of commitment between parents and children. The three stages are:

• A) dependence, discipline, independence
• B) postfigurative, cofigurative, prefigurative
• C) belief, transformation, transitional
• D) formation, alienation, transitional
• E) dependence, independence, interdependence

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