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| self-defined unit made up of any number of persons who live or have lived in relationship with one another over time in a common living space and who are usually, but not always, united by marriage and kinship |
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| mother, father, and their biological children |
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| two adults and their children. because of divorce, separation, death, or adoption, the children may be the offspring of other parents, or of just one of the adults who is raising them |
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| one parent raising one or more children |
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| relatives such as aunts, uncles, cousins, or grandparents and/or unrelated persons who are a part of a family unit |
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| family in which a person is raised |
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| circumplex model of family interaction |
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| model of the relationship s among family adaptability, cohesion, and communication |
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| family's ability to modify and respond to changes in the family's power structure and roles |
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| emotional bonding and feelings of togetherness that families experience |
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| computer-mediated communication (CMC) |
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| communication between and among people through the medium of computers (includes e-mail, chat rooms, bulletin boards, and newsgroups) |
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| social or psychological copresence |
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| state of mind that occurs during computer-mediated interactions or text messaging, in which partners think and act as though they were face to face |
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| interaction in which participants are actively engaging at the same time |
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| interaction in which participants send and receive messages from each other with delays between reception and response |
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| hyperpersonal relationships |
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| relationships formed primarily through CMC that become more personal than equivalent FtF relationships |
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| latin phrase that can be used to describe a type of sexual harassment. The phrase roughly means "you do something for me and I'll do something for you" |
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| communication that flows from subordinates to superiors |
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| communication that flows from superiors to subordinates |
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| type of sexual harassment in which an employee's rights are threatened through offensive working conditions or behavior on the part of other workers |
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| communications among colleagues or co-workers at the same level within an organization |
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