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Anonymous posted 3 years ago (last edited Developmental Milestones COLLAPSE Describe what the crisis of industry versus inferiority is and its individual impact. Discuss an example to exemplify this crisis along for males and females.

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One of the most important stages that would set the basis for one’s future positive or negative development would be industrious vs inferiority. This stage works towards achieving competence by performing challenging tasks and master new skills, especially in the school. This would mean that the previous stages such as, trust vs mistrust, autonomy vs shame and initiative vs guilt are very important in making one either industrious or inferior. Those children who developed trust, autonomy and initiative would navigate through their environment and exhibit competency while others would struggle. This is the stage when children would differentiate the genders from girls and boys thus, girls would be allowed to work on soft tasks and would be motivated to engage in soft subjects more while boys would be taught to engage in hard tasks and they would be asked to master certain subjects that would help them get a manly job in the future. Although both boys and girls would experience the same two stages, the impact would be different for boys and girls depending on their culture.

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