When the social positions occupied and roles played by a person are compatible with personality, this situation works to:
a. sustain stability in personality
b. provide the security to change personality
c. encourage the search for new positions and roles
d. both b and c above
e. none of the above
Question 2As individuals grow older and reach mature adulthood, they face the dilemma of generativity versus _________________ in Erik Erikson's model of development.
a. sadness
b. self-absorption
c. self-hatred
d. depression
e. none of the above
Question 3The author points out that the U.S. is __________.
a. just as it has always been
b. undergoing a racial-ethnic transformation
c. allowing more importation than is healthy for our country
d. enabling too much integration
Question 4As the text notes, __________ abetted the development of the Arab Spring.
a. graffiti on the walls of the cities
b. Facebook
c. newspaper articles in the West
d. handbills distributed at supermarkets
Question 5In the years leading up to the Civil War in the United States, was religion used to support slavery or abolition?
a. It was used to support slavery.
b. It was used to support abolition.
c. It was used to support both.
d. It was used to support neither.
Question 6Socialists believe profits are __________.
a. inherently good
b. a necessary evil
c. used to better humanity
d. immoral