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| Two or more people related by birth, marriage or adoption, residing in the same unit (U.S. census bureau) |
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| All people who occupy a housing unit, regardless of a relationship |
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| Marrying people with similar interests |
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| Several spouses but only one at a time |
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| man with more than one wife |
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| Women with more than one husband- Usually one woman who marries brothers- so land is divided- Tibet |
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| Bronfenbrenner's ecological approach |
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| People develop in a variety of contexts such as: Microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem |
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| Family development theory |
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Families go through different stages and adapt to those changes. 8 Stages over a lifespan-
1. Beginning of family, 2. Childbearing family, 3. Family with preschool children, 4. Families with school children 5. Family with adolescents, 6. Family as a launching center 7. Family in middle years 8. Aging family |
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| Conflict occurs, perhaps as a struggle over resources, and this leads to inequality. (Evident today in male/female relationships- housework, divorce, feminization of poverty) |
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Families function like an ecological system (similar to structural functionalism).
1. Families have boundaries
2. Families try to maintain homeostasis |
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| Symbolic interaction theory |
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| How people form/share meanings in communication efforts: determined in part by social roles (wife, mother, sister, daughter) |
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Based on the notion that people tend to maximize their rewards and minimize the costs in relationships
Outcome=Reward-cost |
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Looks at how societies and families work, emphasizing gender-based role specialization, which is viewed as necessary to promote family equilibrium
Problems with this:
Focuses too much on nuclear, heterosexual families and functions that structures serve are not always clear |
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| Which theory emphasizes rewards and costs |
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| Which theory would look at how a new baby destabilizes a marriage and how the couple makes adjustments to return to homeostasis? |
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| Which theory would focus on the role of the wife vs. husband? |
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| Which theory would focus on patterns of interaction? |
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| Which theory would consider the influence of family, church, stats, etc? |
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| Which theory would focus on inequalities in women's roles? |
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| Feminist and conflict theories |
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| Coonz's definition of marriage |
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| Marriage was traditionally about safety, political alliances, offspring (for land and labor), collaborative work. It was often arranged and not about love |
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| A sociocultural construction- what it means to be male or female in a particular society |
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| Whether male of female biologically speaking |
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| the roles we are expected to perform as a result of being male or female- as part of this can have both attitudes and behavors |
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| Person has traits and behaviors typically associated with other gender or a blend of stereotypical masculine and feminine traits |
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| Children learn gender roles through socialization |
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| Cognitive development theory |
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| Once children understand the permanence of their gender, they strive to adopt the appropriate gender roles |
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| How we handle girls vs. boys |
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| Children are directed towards particular toys and books |
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| Describe same behaviors differently (active vs aggressive, scared vs. angry) |
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| Girls are given indoor chores, boys outdoor chores, sports.. |
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| Mother/father differences |
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| Dad more rigid; set higher academic standards for boys and encourage exploration |
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| Coonz's definition of marriage |
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| Marriage was traditionally about safety, political alliances, offspring (for land and labor), collaborative work. It was often arranged and not about love |
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| A sociocultural construction- what it means to be male or female in a particular society |
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| Whether male of female biologically speaking |
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| the roles we are expected to perform as a result of being male or female- as part of this can have both attitudes and behavors |
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| Person has traits and behaviors typically associated with other gender or a blend of stereotypical masculine and feminine traits |
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| Children learn gender roles through socialization |
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| Cognitive development theory |
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| Once children understand the permanence of their gender, they strive to adopt the appropriate gender roles |
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| How we handle girls vs. boys |
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| Children are directed towards particular toys and books |
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| Describe same behaviors differently (active vs aggressive, scared vs. angry) |
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| Girls are given indoor chores, boys outdoor chores, sports.. |
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| Mother/father differences |
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| Dad more rigid; set higher academic standards for boys and encourage exploration |
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| Family of orientation (or origin) |
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| The family in which we grow up, the family that orients us to the world. |
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| The family formed through marriage and childbearing |
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| The family formed through living or cohabiting with another person, whether we are married or unmarried |
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| Family relationships created through marraige |
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| The social organization of the family |
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| Consanguineous relationships |
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| Are created through biological ties |
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| The specification and definition of concepts used by the researcher |
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| The identification and/or development of research strategies to observe or measure concepts |
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| Affected by the independent variable and in turn affecting the dependent variable |
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| Using questionnaires or interviews |
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| In-depth examinations of a person or a small groups of people who come to a psychiatrist, psychologist or social worker with psychological or relationship problems |
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| A series of individual interviews. The most traditional approach of all clinical research |
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| Scholars attempt to study behavior systematically through direct observation while remaining as unobtrusive as possible |
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| Researchers isolate a single factor under controlled circumstances to determine its infulence |
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| Data is gathered in an effort to solve problems, evaluate policies or programs, or estimate the outcome of some proposed future change in policy. |
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