Definitions

Question 1

Family

Answer 1

a group of two or more persons living in the same household who are related by blood, marriage or adoption

A group of two or more persons living together who have consented to similar to ties of blood or marriage

Question 2

Census family

Answer 2

A married couple of opposite or same sex and the children, if any, of either or both spouses

A common law couple (AIR) of opposite or same sex and the children, if any of either or both partners

A single parent of any marital status with at least once child living in the same house

Question 3

Economic Family

Answer 3

A group of two or more persons who live in the same house and are related to each other by blood, marriage, common-law union, adoption or foster relationship.

A couple may be opposite or same sex

Question 4

Stages

Answer 4

An interval of time where the relationships between interactions and roles within the family are both qualitatively and quantitatively distinct from other periods

Question 5

Transitions

Answer 5

Separate each developmental stage from the next

Transitions are normal, function of roles/expectations of specific family members may differ

Question 6

Tasks

Answer 6

Family unit strives to meet the demands and needs of members

Striving to meet their own individual developmental tasks

Successful achievement contributes to satisfaction and success with tasks at later developmental stages

Question 7

Cultural

Answer 7

A dynamic, lived process inclusive of beliefs, practices, and values

Activities and conditions take on an emotional tone and a moral meaning

Question 8

Culture Includes what?

Answer 8

§ Ethnographic variables
Demographic variables
Status variables
Affiliation variables

Question 9

Acculturation

Answer 9

Gradual changes produced in a culture by the influence of another culture –> increased similarities of the two

Question 10

Enculturation

Answer 10

The process of learning the behaviours, knowledge, and values of a particular culture

Question 11

Assimilation

Answer 11

The complete and one-way process of one culture being absorbed into the other

Question 12

Ethnocentrism

Answer 12

Individuals judge other groups relative to their own ethnic group or culture, especially with concern for language, behavior, customs, and religion

Question 13

Stereotype

Answer 13

Generalized beliefs or ideas

Question 14

Prejudice

Answer 14

Thoughts or feelings based on beliefs

Question 15

Discrimation

Answer 15

Actions or inaction toward

Question 16

Objectivity

Answer 16

one domain of reference explains the world - we exist independently of observers

Question 17

objectivity in parentheses

Answer 17

truths are created and brought forth by observer - nothing is certain, everyone’s view is a version of a presumably correct interpretation