MP Baumgartner's Analysis of Middle-Class Suburbs Revealed That Residents Had

question 22

Multiple Choice

M.P. Baumgartner's analysis of middle-class suburbs revealed that residents had shallow, single-stranded relationships with others and, as a result, they used avoidance as their major strategy for dealing with the petty day-to-day problems of life. Baumgartner referred to this phenomenon as

• A) boomburb syndrome.
• B) moral minimalism.
• C) urban alienation.
• D) suburban depression.

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