• How can socializing agents be both positive and negative in the development of the self? Give some examples to support your response.
• Give examples of how certain acts in the United States are considered deviant by other cultures, and conversely what acts we might consider deviant, even though they are considered normal in other cultures.
• What standards do we use to judge if other cultures are practicing deviant acts? You may want to bring in the concepts of ethnocentrism and cultural relativism.