Dylan wants to drop out of high school and go to New York to be a musician. Her parents, friends, and high school teachers encou
rage her to graduate from high school prior to moving to New York. This encouragement is an example of what organizing principle of psychosocial theory?
The term radius of significant others refers to a networking of relationships which are important to an individual, and whose range and variety of significant relationships expands from infancy through adolescence. In that matter, Dylan's radius of significant others implicates a sense of communion or connection between the people involved, such as her parents and teachers who encourage her to graduate from high school before moving to New York.
The statement that describes a gothic element in the excerpt "The Lady Maid's Bell" that would show a social attitute at that the time of the Wharton's was "Some ladies are very stiff about having their servants’ friends in the house overnight."
