Statuses are marvelous human inventions that enable us to get along with one another and to determine where we "fit" in society. As we go about our everyday lives, we mentally attempt to place people in terms of their statuses. For example, we must judge whether the person in the library is a reader or a librarian, and whether the unfamiliar person on our property is a thief or a meter reader.
The statuses we assume often (26) with the people we encounter, and change throughout life. Most of us can, at very high speed, (27) the statuses that various situations require. Much of social (28) consists of identifying and selecting among (29) statuses and (30) other people to assume their statuses (31) relation to us. This means that we (32) our actions to those of other people based on a constant mental process of (33) and interpretation. Although some of us find the task more (34) than
A. adjustments
B. advantages
C. administration
D. adventures
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