Author Question: How does the time and place we are born into influence us and our behavior? Give an example. What ... (Read 69 times)

dbose · **on:** Jul 2, 2018

How does the time and place we are born into influence us and our behavior? Give an example.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Whichof the following countries is much less egalitarian than the others?

a. Sweden
b. Brazil
c. the United States
d. India

kusterl · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 2, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Beyond specific organizations and institutions lie the social, economic, and historical contexts of our lives. The state of the world we are born into shapes the opportunities available to us, either limiting or enabling us to pursue different goals and aspirations. An African American male born in the South in 1910 faced a very different environment than the same man would today. A child growing up in a working-class family in Detroit in the 1940s would experience a different set of economic opportunities than the same child growing up in contemporary Detroit (once the center of the automobile industry and home to a large number of high-paying working-class jobs, today the Detroit area has been hard hit by the devastating decline in the U.S. manufacturing sector). Women entering adulthood in the 1950s faced a different set of choices and cultural expectations than women currently entering adulthood.

Answer to Question 2

c