When their company downsized due to poor economic conditions, both joanne and trish were laid off. when discussing her situation with some acquaintances, joanne said, "trish lost her job because she was incompetent and lazy, but i got fired because the boss couldn't handle an assertive woman like me." this example illustrates a social psychological principle called: ?

earlier philosophers whose work influenced the enlightenment included bacon, descartes, locke, and spinoza. the major figures of the enlightenment included beccaria, diderot, hume, kant, montesquieu, rousseau, adam smith, and voltaire. it spread the ideas of the enlightenment across europe and beyond.

i disagree that there is little difference between adult female development and adult male development. sociological studies comparing female and male pathways to adulthood, revelead that there are sustancial differences between them. particularly, female and male differ from timing of marriage, when they began to live with children and the likelihood of combining wife/husband and parent roles.