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Chelseaamend

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Describe the process of role-taking and its importance to human behavior.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

The conflict perspective on the state has its roots in the ideas of which of these social philosophers?
 
  a. Thomas Hobbes
  b. mile Durkheim
  c. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  d. Talcott Parsons
  e. Harriet Martineau



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Answer to Question 1

Role-taking is the internal conversation we have with ourselves that allows us to anticipate others' behaviors. It allows us to take the viewpoint of another individual and then respond to ourselves from that imagined perspective. The ability to take another's role makes it possible to avoid the trial-and-error method, a highly inefficient mode of behavior.

Answer to Question 2

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