Based on what you have read in this chapter, how would sociologists explain the fact that many young people in the United States experience adolescence as a time of confusion?
a. There are cultural inconsistencies in the definition of this stage of life as partly childlike and partly adultlike.
b. Hormones greatly affect young people as they mature.
c. Growth always involves change and change is confusing.
d. Parents are no longer providing proper guidance to young people.
Question 2
The story about the class at New York's Bronx Community College explains that
a. race is a simple matter of skin color.
b. many people have mixed racial and ethnic ancestry.
c. race is not important to the lives of people in the United States.
d. All of these responses are correct.
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