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F.I.C Exam Review Flashcards

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Psychology

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The scientific study of the human mind and its function, especially those affecting behaviour
EX. Sigmund Freud ( Theories of Personality Development)

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Anthropology

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Ones own culture
- Study if Humsbkind; human behaviour in society culture
- culture anthropologists live with groups to observe then in a natural setting and decode an anecdotal

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Sociology

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Society
- the study of society, and social institutions. And social relationship
- explains the behaviour of individuals in social groups, families and society

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Karl Marx

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focuses on the struggle between capitalists and the working class

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What was Stages of Cognitive Development

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Creator– Piaget
Has 4 stages
Specific to the brain
Backs school corclem
Age range from 0-11

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Psychosocial stages of Development

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Creator: Erikson
8 stages
Has Basic Conflict,
Important Events,
and Key words
Scico-Soical

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Maslow

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Hierarchy of Needs
Pyramid of needs
5 stages
Have to have the basic before moving up the chart
Start- Physiological needs
End- self actualization

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Levinson

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Seasons of Life
4 stages
Each stage last approximately 25 years

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Harlow

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Love and Attachment
infant monkey research
Surrogate mothers, one cloth one mental with food
Predicted the monkey would go to the metal monkeys, but choose the cloth that provides love

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Functionalism

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A working machine
Theory focuses on the roles people perform, and the idea that behaviour follows established norms
Everything is connected, and every thing is connected
A Marco theory

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What is Conflict theory

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A Marco theory
The role power
Two groups: Those who have power and those who don’t
Supposed to be a balance for both system

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Feminist Theory

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A Marco and Micro Theory
Experience of gender
Macro level- the beliefs women have and if it is equal
Micro level- attitudes and values of men and men

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Symbolic Interactionism

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A Mirco theory connect rate on on which individuals attach meaning to situation and how it influences behaviour
- focuses on the human mind and how it intervenes between what we observe and how we act

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HUNTERS GATHERERS

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  • first family groupings of humans may
    have been hordes
  • women responsible for gathering
    “simpler” foods (ie. fruit, nuts, seeds
    etc.) and nurturing of children
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PRE-INDUSTRIAL FAMILIES

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(approx.1600-1800 CE)
 rapid population growth over thousands of
years = growth of villages and towns
 commerce, technology, and crafts developed
- many of these working out of the family
- today we refer to this as cottage industryhome

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Development of Education

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  • education, as we know it today, became feasible with the printing press (C15th)
    late C19th, primary schools were *established for all children – not readily
    accepted; parents struggled to see the economic advantage of education; still
    true in different countries
  • even until 1930s and 1940s many left school at 14
  • 1960s and 70s “streams” were created to
    provide education regardless of ability
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The 4 characteristics of adulthood

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  1. formed identity
  2. separated from family (left
    home and/or become
    financially independent)
  3. started the career
  4. formed supportive
    relationships
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Permakid

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generation is
referred to as the “Boomerang” as they leave home and
return

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education inflation

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youth require more education to qualify for jobs these days

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Generation X

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Also known as latchkey children

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Chronological clock

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is a person’s actual age
defines adulthood in terms of the number of years
since birth

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BIOLOGICAL CLOCK

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reflects our physical changes as we grow
ex. sexual maturity, reaching full
size/strength
has sped up significantly thanks to
improved nutrition and health

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PSYCHOLOGICAL CLOCK

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reflects brain development
gain more mature ways of understanding the
world

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SOCIAL CLOCK

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reflects society’s “timetable” of expectations for us
when certain events should occur in life
clock speed changes as social norms change (ex.
moving out of parents place, age of marriage, age
of having first child, etc.)

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anticipatory socialization

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allows people to learn and practice role and appropriate behaviour before actually taking on a new role

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polygamy

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the practice or custom of having more than one wife or husband at the same time

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re socialization

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undergoing this process again by drastically changing one’s values and beliefs.

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polyandry

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polygamy in which a woman has more than one husband

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polygyny

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most common and accepted form of polygamy, entailing the marriage of a
man with several women

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dower rights

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a married person’s right to
occupy the dwelling place owned in the name of
the spouse

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bride price

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money paid by groom or his family

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dowry

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a transfer of parental property, gifts or
money at the marriage of a daughter

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patrician

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wealthy, aristocratic family

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companionate marriage

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– shared lifestyle; therefore choosing a partner
who has similar goals and the financial means to afford a shared status

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Types of Suicide

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  • Egoistic reflects a prolonged sense of not
    belonging; lack of social integration
  • Altruistic is characterized by a sense of being
    overwhelmed by a group’s goals and beliefs
  • Anomic reflects an individual’s moral confusion
    and lack of social direction, which is related to
    dramatic social and economic upheaval
  • Fatalistic occurs when a person is excessively
    regulated, and so oppressed that they would
    rather die than live on
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Causes of Homelessness

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Disruptive/Conflictual Family Conditions –
physical, psychological, sexual abuse, neglect
or abandonment – a 1992 study found that
75% report some form of abuse
Residential Instability – foster care to
homelessness
* Approximately 50 000 young Canadians run
away from home each year; 90% return
within 60 days; 10% become homeless
Financial Crisis – leave home, cannot do it
on their own and are unable or unwilling to
return home for various reasons

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Gender Role

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especially challenging for new Canadians who
are faced with re-socialization and conflicting
cultures
most influential change in gender roles is women
entering the workplace; returning even after they
have children

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Nulclear Family

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  • Basic family consiting of a Father, Mother, and one Child
  • Having a elder son and youngr daugtther would make them the gold family
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Social Homogamy Theory

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  • The social Homogamy Theory is seen from a sociologist’s standpoint in that marriage and mating with a person of a similar socioeconomic statute, ethnicity, race, age, education level, or religion.
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Sexual Attraction

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  • Sexual attraction is the attraction an individual feels that causes them to desire sexual contact with another person. Several important factors influence sexual attraction, from biological and psychological aspects to emotional beliefs.
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Filter

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  • people devloped retionship by applying a series of filtters
  • social demogprhicy attitudes complementarity
  • i.e The Bachor
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Propinquity

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the greater the physical (or psychological) proximity between people, the greater the chance that they will form friendships or romantic relationships.

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Love Triangle

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  • Psychologist Robert Sternberg has come up with a theory that explains love in two-way relationships.
  • The Triangular Love Theory represents the three components to a relationship, which are intimacy, commitment, and passion, as the vertices of a triangle.
  • The theory states that a relationship that only has one element is less likely to survive than a relationship that has all of the points on the triangle.
  • There are different stages and types of love that can be explained as different combinations of these three elements.
  • For example, fatuous love is a type of love motivated largely by passion and commitment, without the stabilizing influence of intimacy.
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Ideal Mate Theory

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  • is attraction based on a person’s unconscious image of the ideal mate formed by pleasant and negative experiences
  • People have a mental image of an ideal mate
    based on appearance, character, or other
    traits
  • i.e how to build a boyfriend
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Natural selection

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  • Natural selection theory can be defined as the process through which populations of living things adapt and change.
  • People that possess qualities, or adapted traits, are more likely to live and procreate.
  • The adaptable qualities are subsequently passed on to the next generation by these people.
  • These beneficial characteristics spread across the population over time.
  • Favorable features are passed down across generations as a result of natural selection.
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Cohabitation

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  • 60% of young Canadians live together in their first
    conjugal relationship
  • most people feel that cohabitation is “acceptable as
    insurance that marriage will last” and less acceptable if
    the couple “do not want to make a lasting commitment”
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Millennials

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  • the gen after X
  • the first to grow up with techology
    *
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filtering

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genealogy

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  • an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms
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androcentricity

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  • occurs when male experience is treated as the norm, whereas female realities are not considered or are relegated to the abnormal.
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credentialism

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a reliance on formal qualifications or certifications to determine whether someone is permitted to undertake a task, speak as an expert or work in a certain field

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blended/reconstituted family

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When a step parent and/or child mixes with another family

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extended family

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  • A grandparent(s), aunt, or uncle live with an oringial family
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heterogamy

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marriage between people from different sociological or educational backgrounds.

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annulment

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the act of annulling something.

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egalitarian marriage

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husbands and wives are equally committed to their jobs and to their families and share equally in both wage-earning and family responsibilities.

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free-choice mate selection

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  • is a process of seeking resource exchange
  • This theory emphasizes that when making mate decisions, individuals are attracted to people who have the resources that they require.
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Social Exchange Theory

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a concept based on the notion that a relationship between two people is created through a process of cost-benefit analysis.

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Developmental Theory

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  • view development as progress from simple to more complex understandings of the self and the world over time. Progress may be continuous in nature, or occurring in stages, but the momentum is most always forward toward greater, more complex understandings.
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The Vanier Institute Definition of Family

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  1. Physical maintenance and care of group
    members
  2. Addition of new membersthrough
    procreation or adoption
  3. Socialization of children
  4. Social control of members
  5. Production, consumption, distribution of
    goods and services
  6. Affective nurturance – love
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The Six Basic and
Universal Functions of
Family
(Zimmerman 1988)

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  • A society must maintain a stable population to survive.
    Families provide physical care for their members, including the adults, their children, and the dependent elderly members.
  • When families are unable to care for their members, hardship will result unless the society is organized to replace the family in this function.
  • Families socialize children by teaching them the skills, knowledge, values and attitudes of their society.
  • Families are responsible for controlling the behaviour of their members to maintain order within the family and within the society which they live.
  • This social control contributes to the socialization process and protects the reputation of all individuals identified with the family group within the society.
    The commitment to the family may be based on spiritual sense of duty, or economic necessity.
  • Participation in appropriate social roles contributes to the health of the society as well as providing the means with which families care for their members.
  • Families perform economic function of producing and consuming goods and services.
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The Family Life Cycle

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  • Beginning Stage
  • Expanding
  • Developing
  • Lanching
  • Middle Age/ Empty Nest
  • Retirement
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three phases of divorce

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Separation of assets, Determining the future of any children affected by the divorce, and. Finalizing the legal status of the divorcees.

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intermarriage

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marriage between people from different ethnic, religious, or social groups.

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non-normative crises

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unexpected life events which are not always disastrous such as caring for a disabled or elderly family member, winning a lottery or accidental death, sudden loss of income, being taken hostage, murder, assault, incest etc

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normative crises

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They may result from midlife career changes, getting married, becoming a parent, divorce, the onset of chronic or terminal illness, or changing schools

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Klaus Riegel

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development in adulthood occurs not in predictable stages, but as individuals adjust in response to the interaction of both internal and external changes

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Margaret Mead

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children learn by watching adult behavior.

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Emile Durkheim

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society exerted a powerful force on individuals

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Leonard Pearlin

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  • people could change their life structure at any time.
  • He believed that they are similarities in life courses because people change in response of similar circumstances and stresses that affect their lives.
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Helen Fisher

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romantic love can be broken down into three categories: lust, attraction, and attachment.

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Helen Harris

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many people in crisis needed short-term solutions rather than long-term Freudian analysis.

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Bernard Murstein

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n relationship seeking, mutual selection happens between two individuals in distinct stages.

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Judith Wallerstein

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the world economic system is divided into ahierarchy of three types of countries: core, semiperipheral, and peripheral

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Jane Loevinger

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describes the ego as a process, rather than a thing; it is the frame of reference (or lens) one uses to construct and interpret one’s world.

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