Ch 12

Question 1

example of role strain in parenting

Answer 1

authority figure and friend

Question 2

factors contributing to role strain in parenting: (4)

Answer 2

society’s unrealistic expectations, decresed authority, increased responsibility, high parenting standards

Question 3

Difficulties in parenting:

• role _ and role _
• what theory? based on _
• overall theory?

Answer 3

• conflict, strain
• role theory, interaction
• symbolic interactionism

Question 4

Parents should:

• provide _, _, and _ support
• _ them by teaching _ and _

Answer 4

• material, physical, emotional

- socialize, norms, values

Question 5

Parenting roles are learned through _, i.e. _ _.

- What theory?

Answer 5

socialization, “playing house”

- Social Learning Theory

Question 6

Challenges of parenthood:

• macro
• meso

Answer 6

• unemployment, poverty

- work policies, lack of affordable childcare

Question 7

Role of neighborhoods, schools, institutions..

- What theory?

Answer 7

• Sharing the load

- Ecological

Question 8

“Challenges and demands of parenting change over the life course.” What theory?

Answer 8

developmental

Question 9

Corporal punishment:

• temporary _, but increases child’s _ and _
• more likely to have emotional/psych problems, and to / later in life.

Answer 9

compliance, aggression, misbehavior

- emotional/psychological, hit/abuse

Question 10

Parenting teenagers:

• changes in _ relationship, more _ and less _
• establish _ _
• “helicopter” parents hinder development of _ skills and _ sklls

Answer 10

• parent-child, negotiation, communication
• individual identity
• decision-making, problem-solving

Question 11

fathers:

• change in involvement because of _ _ supporting _ and _. Resulting from _ beliefs about fathers.
• most important: _ of interaction, _ _ support

Answer 11

• social institutions (media), responsibility, involvement, feminist
• quality, consistent financial

Question 12

Differences between developmental theories:

• development via
• time period
  1. Mead’s Theory of the Social Self
  2. Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory
  3. Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory of Development

Answer 12

1. social interaction - socialization process, significant others, generalized other
   - early childhood
2. interpretation (active learning), time
   - mid childhood
3. resolution of challenges
   - entire life