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Assignment:
Intentional Membership -- study questions
1. Why is ego development important for Phase I?
2. Why does socialization require more self-determination in Phase II than in Phase I?
3. Why is increasing other-interest in Phase II not likely to be driven by self-interest?
4. How does the motive for conformity change from Phase I to Phase II?
5. How do self-interest and society's interests coming apart raise the reconciliation problem?
6. What are the two dangers that phase II socialization must avoid?
7. How is socialization like a dialogue?
8. Why is peer life outside the family more open to self-determination?
9. Why is phase II bonding more intentional than bonding in phase I?
10. Why are self-interest and other-interest both possible motives for Phase II socialization?
11. What about changing social contexts resists 100% consistent behavior?
12. What about prudence resists 100% consistent behavior?
13. What sort of consistency does moral integrity demand?
14. Why can't infants be expected to have integrity?
15. What is the role of the ego in achieving integrity?
16. What about adolescent socialization allows progress from self-discovery to self-determination?
17. Why do some say the self is a fiction?
18. Why do social conventions discourage spontaneously expressing every feeling?
19. Why do Situationists doubt that people have virtues in the traditional strong sense?
20. What did the Milgram experiment discover?
21. What did the Stanford experiment discover?
22. How does prudence counsel against totally consistent behavior?
23. Why did Emerson believe that too much consistency stagnates personal growth?
24. How does self-interested rationalization threaten integrity?
25. How might compartmentalization of thinking and acting compromise integrity?
26. Why is it a mistake to assume that adults have fully matured personalities?
27. In what way is teenage rebellion a social role?
28. How are Aristotle's three kinds of friends a model for different relationships to society?
29. What is the main danger of Phase II conformism?