CTP S9

Question 1

Macro level focuses on society. But what are the influences.

Answer 1

1. Macro level focuses on large scale patterns of society
2. Influences are:
3. Economic forces
4. Social movements
5. Technological innovations
6. popular culture

Question 2

1. What is micro level?

Answer 2

1. Focuses on small pattern of society.
2. Bottom view perspective: Individual has influences on the society

Question 3

1. Structural function Perspective is what ?

Answer 3

1. Macroview: Family viewed as social institution performing essential functions.

Universal Family fulfills six needs:

1. Economic production
2. Socialization of children
3. Care of sick and aged
4. Recreation
5. Sexual control
6. Reproduction

Question 4

Conflict perspective explain!

Answer 4

1. Individuals and groups are in conflict with each other for power and scare resources (time & money)
2. This perspective considers competition and struggle with in the family desirable
3. Focuses on how family members compete and cooperate

Question 5

1. Symbolic interaction view! Explain (Micro)

Answer 5

1. Adopted the term symbolic interaction to refer to the process of interpersonal interaction
2. Focuses on internal family interactions
3. A member of the family understands the other through interactions and symbols that are familiar

Question 6

1. Family system perspective

Answer 6

1. Family members are interconncected
2. Changes in one affects another
3. Family – those who are tied together through their common biological, legal cultural and emotional history and their implied future together.
4. Family is the primary and almost always the most powerful system to which humans belong. Social exchange perspective

Question 7

Social Exchange perspective explain:

Answer 7

1. Individual seeks most benefits with least costs in a relationship
2. Benefits can be Wealth, security, attractiveness, status, youth, power, fame etc.
3. Loss of those can be considered as costs.

Question 8

Feminist perspective by Jessie Bernard ExplaiN!

Answer 8

1. Inequality between men and women caused by male dominance.
2. According to this theory, marriage makes men happier but women miserable.
3. Postulated by Jessie Bernard (1972)
4. They advocate for same sex marriages.
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Question 9

Ecological Perspective explain (Macro/Micro):

Answer 9

1. Family is influenced and influences the environment.
2. This theory believes that human behaviours is influenced by immediate and distant environment
3. Family, Child care arrangements, schools, government etc.

Question 10

Family development perspective (micro). Explain!

Answer 10

1. Family members establishes developmental tasks as they move through family cycle stages:
2. Married Couple
3. Child Bearing family
4. Family with pre-schoolers
5. Family with school children
6. Family with adolescents
7. Family as launching center
8. Middle-age family – empty nest
9. Aging family