Aimee Is Visiting a Friend Who Has a Newborn

question 34

Multiple Choice

Aimee is visiting a friend who has a newborn. Aimee is enjoying holding the baby, and occasionally she thinks she may have prompted him to smile. According to Bowlby's conceptualization of attachment, the baby's lack of attachment to one person indicates he is in:

• A) phase one.
• B) phase two.
• C) phase three.
• D) phase four.

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Definitions:

Social Darwinism

A theory that applies Darwin's concept of natural selection to societies, suggesting that individuals or groups achieve advantage over others as a result of genetic or biological superiority.

Sociological Imagination

The ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and larger social influences, coined by C. Wright Mills.

Spencer's Idea

Associated with Herbert Spencer, who applied evolutionary theory to sociology and philosophy, advocating that society evolves through survival of the fittest.

Symbolic Interactionism

An approach in sociology that emphasizes the role of symbols and language as core elements of all human interaction.