First Exam Flashcards
What was Diane Savino’s video about?
The Case for Same-Sex Marriage (failing marriages, divorce rates…etc)
What is post-modernism
1 of 3 big ideas, demand for society to deal with it’s issues
Who wrote “The Post-Modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge?” What’s it about?
JF Lyotard. What is our condition of knowledge?
Who commissioned Lyotard to write his book?
Quebec- when they were working towards breaking away from Canada
What are grand narratives?
Big Stories (such as Liberal Progress: things are getting better because of liberalism”)
What was the solution to skepticism of Grand Narratives
-Petite Histoire (little story of your own life-smaller stories- do what’s right for me- individual stories)
People have their own version of what family means is….
post modernism
What was Pico Iyer’s Ted Talk about?
Where is Home? Home is not a piece of soil, but a piece of soil. Home is not where you’re born it’s where you find yourself.
What are the 6 parts of the International Family Strengths Model?
1: Appreciation and Affection 2: Communication 3: Commitment 4: Spending Time Together 5: Spiritual Well-Being 6: Effective Coping with stress and crises
What is Appreciation and Affection?(Family Strengths Model)
emphasize positive qualities in each other
What is Communication (Family Strengths Model)
Not just expressive, but reflective. Listening and hearing without blaming.
What is Commitment (Family Strengths Model)
Unconditional time together
What is spending time together? (Family Strengths Model)
Intentional time together
What is Spiritual Well-Being?(Family Strengths Model)
- Not just about regular worship, Family shares an orientation that is bigger than themselves (and they do it together)
What is effective coping with stress and crises? (Family Strengths Model)
Adaptability
(Family Strengths Model) Can these strengths be developed?
Yes
What was World’s Strictest Parents Video about?
-2 children sent to a strict home and came back changed because they were learning how to respect their parents.(modern vs. traditional parenting)
How do you define gender?
Personality traits and behaviours that characterize an individual as masculine or feminine
What is a gender role?
A person’s outward expression of maleness or femaleness
What is gender identity?
A person’s personal, internal sense of maleness or femaleness which is expressed in personality and behaviour
What are the Environmental Influences on Gender?
Societal Expectations, Parental Influences, Influence of popular press, television and movies, School influences
What are societal expectations?
Something that you had to learn (vary according to class and ethnicity or race). Influences that surround a child.
What are parental influences?
What were/are their beliefs about masculinity/fem? How did they raise you?
What is the influence of popular press and media?
Biggest influence, lessons learnt through media
What are school influences?
Space of social development.
What was Miss Representation about?
- Women in Congress
What was The Mask you Live in about?
Men hiding their identity
What was the “Flying Solo Documentary about?” from Doc Zone?
People living alone We have shifted to a more selfish, more accepting and less traditional society.
What was Martin Buber’s idea of dating?
The ‘I’ and ‘Thou’- see someone as human. Affirm what’s best for self without diminishing others.
What are the Four Functions of dating?
1: Recreation 2: Socialization 3: Status grading or status achievement 4: Mate Selection
What is recreation dating?
Expressive recreation, not with another purpose other than having fun.
What is socialization as a function of dating?
learning how we take our place in the world?
What does function mean?
unintended consequences, not what you think you are doing.
What are the two mate selection theories?
Parent image theory, Ideal Mate theory.
What is the parent image theory of mate selection?
Derives from Freud- mate resembles our opposite sex parent
What is the ideal mate theory?
Symbolic perspective- based on our feelings
What was Helen Fisher’s video about?
- Technology hasn’t changed love. Technology doesn’t change who you are going to love.
What did Fredrich Engles have to do with Marx?
they wrote the communist manifesto together.
What was the critical perspective of Engles
World is structured through class system, it was a system of exploitation, capitalism is a big problem
Who wrote ‘The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State”?
Fredrich Engles
What did The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State” about?
organizes human history in periods (ex: capitalism, feudalism, slavery)
What is primitive communism?
‘first’ form of communistic living. (No Ownership- no wealth)
What was Fredrich Engle’s view of relationships?
No marriage, no institutional monotony, everyone lived together
What epoch did the book talk about with Engles
Primitive communism
How did Engles view marriage
An institution that functions to support private property
What is asexual?
No sexual drive, affection.
Who came up with the functions of dating?
Skipper and Nass
