One of Dunphy's Earlier Stages of Friendship Development, This Stage

question 34

Multiple Choice

One of Dunphy's earlier stages of friendship development, this stage is comprised entirely of opposite-sex cliques; no longer are the same-sex friendship affiliations as dominant as they were throughout elementary school and the early years of junior high. Groups exist only long enough in order for its members to learn or to be socialized into those gender-role characteristics needed for adult relationships.

• A) the fully developed crowd
• B) crowd disintegration
• C) the crowd in transition
• D) pre-crowd stage

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