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(1) role conflict is a situation in which the different roles an individual is expected to play make incompatible demands. (2) a working mother provides one example. (3) in meeting the requirements of a full-time job, she automatically violates the expectation that a mother will put her children’s needs before everything else. (4) in meeting the cultural demands of motherhood (staying home if the child is sick, attending school plays), she automatically violates the requirements of a nine-to-five job. (5) a priest provides another example. (6) he is expected to treat confessions as strictly confidential. (7) but a priest, like any other citizen, has responsibilities toward the community. (8) what should he do if a parishioner confesses that he has committed several rapes and cannot control his behavior? (9) in living up to one role expectation (confidentiality), the priest violates another (community responsibility). (10) the key point here is that the difficulties the individuals in these positions experience—the feelings of conflict, inadequacy, and anguish—are not of their own making. (11) they are built into their roles.

q. the main pattern of organization of the passage is

a. cause and effect.

b. definition and example.

c. comparison.

d. contrast.