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Preconceptions about the family. Learn to discriminate the true and false generations about the family.

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There is only one mode of association between divorce and not having children

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What is the most important reason that the family still holds a central position in modern society?

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Family socializes between family members and children

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Why is the family theoretical significant? Know the main reasons:

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Religion and family development are the only things around the world in common

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Understand both expressive and instrumental functions of the society

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Expressive-day to day interactions

Instrumental- providing food shelter clothing

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Understand the representations of advantages of the familistic package.

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All families should have something to provide continue family name and think of family as a social unit

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Would the family serve an important social function in Plato’s Republic?

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False

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Do most sophisticated studies of the family confirm what we already know as common sense?

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False- it has to be studied tested and sampled

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Know the two kinds of functions of family in the society

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Expressive and instrumental

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Do experiments in communal living attempt to create new types of family relationships?

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Yes

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Do most people believe that many needs of the whole society are served by the family?

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Yes

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The global revolution in family and personal life is characterized by what?

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Worldwide concern of the future of the family

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Know about the conditions of families in China today

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Arranged marriages
Increased divorce
Women are being recognized more

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12
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The feature of sexuality in contemporary society

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Largely disconnected from reproduction

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How does Anthony Giddens describe the 1950s family

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Traditional or old fashioned

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The concept “pure relationship”

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Relationship based on positive emotional communication

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According to the current marriage law is it easy or difficult for couples to obtain a divorce in China?

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Easy

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Do women and children have much control over those own lives in traditional families?

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False

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17
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Is antagonism towards homosexuality still widespread while attitudes towards sexuality have changes?

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Yes

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18
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Has the high divorce rate in the U.S. Resulted in the decline of marriage.

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No high divorce high marriage society

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Are personal relationships and emotional aria faction very important in modern family life?

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Yes

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What were the bases of the ideal family in early 20th century

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Law tradition religious belief and institutional marriage

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The family ideologies in Spain

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Same sex has right to marry

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The different patterns of family formation and fertility between Finland and Spain.

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Fertility rates for Finland have risen

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How was the family defined in preindustrial times?

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Community of need

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Describe the traditional/ conservative idea of family in Spain and Finland

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Conjugal male bread winner and female homemaker

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Did Finland and Spain shift from egalitarianism to a male breadwinner/female homemaker family model in the latter 20th century

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No

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26
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In which country national law grants homosexual couples the right to marry and adopt children?

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Spain

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How the fertility rate changed in Finland during 1980s when family policy was intensely developed?

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No decline

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28
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Know about Alternative family forms in Finland and Spain

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Alternative families are more common in Finland

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Compare the features of the Finnish and the Spanish labor market and the influences on women’s career

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Finnish market is more masculine and harder for women to advance

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How are modern mothers influenced by the ideology of intensive mothering?

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Sacrificing and nurturing

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31
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What is the image of supermom in contemporary society

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Perfection

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32
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What are the images of supermoms when pitted against traditional mothers in the mommy wars?

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Traditional moms accuse working moms of neglecting children

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33
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In author Sharon Hay’s study how did stay at home moms imply working mothers?

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Own interests before children’s interests

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Has the ideology of intensive mothering been the dominant model of childrearing in the US?

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Yes

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35
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Are traditional mothers affected by other women’s workforce participation

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Yes

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Do working mothers have desire to stay at home with their children while traditional mothers are pulled by the pressure of the outside world?

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Yes

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37
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Where have the mommy wars realities from?

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Attention between child rearing and changing gender roles

38
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Are stay at home moms and working mom ambivalent about their current positions?

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Yes

39
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Where does the idea of a declining American family stem from

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Anxiety over divorce rate

40
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What does the conservative model of family breakdown focus on?

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Family roles

41
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According to conservative critics of the family what is the solution to the breakdown in family values

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Giving marriage and parenting higher priority

42
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The view that the current family crisis stems from structural more than cultural changes is characterized by which model?

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Liberal

43
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What does the feminist model of family decline empathize

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Decline of community and corporation

44
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Is to create tougher divorce laws a conservative solution to a breakdown in family structure?

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Yes

45
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Does the feminist model of family breakdown focus on changes in the economy and less parental time at home?

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No

46
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Have the recent changes in family forms had the greatest negative consequences for children?

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Yes

47
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Which two models attribute the decline in family values to women’s increased participation in the labor force

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Conservative

48
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How do feminists think of the role of community in improving conditions for families

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Cooperation between community family and work

49
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Know about the three periods that have dramatically changed women’s place in society

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Separate spheres 1840-1990

50
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The features of each period

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Separate spheres, distinct roles for women

51
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What are influences of the passage of women’s suffrage amendment

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Passed 1890- 1940 did not lead to increase representation it did little to politics and government

52
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According to Robert max Jackson what is the most significant factor in the decline of gender inequality?

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Change in economic and political structure

53
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What are the features of the area of separate spheres

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Separate spheres for men and women

54
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Have the passage of women’s suffrage amendment considerably changed women’s status?

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No

55
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Summarize the features of the improvement of women’s status since the 19th century

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No

56
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The “glass ceiling” and women’s domestic duties are an example of which era?

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Residual inequalities

57
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According to the author is male dominance inevitable despite the rise of women’s status?

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No

58
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During world war 2 women were asked to go to work to fill vacancies created by the men who left to go to war. What name were these women collectively referred to?

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Rose of the water

59
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In the mid 1950s Americans made up only 6% of the worlds population yet produced what % of the worlds goods?

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50%

60
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In what year did the birth control pill go on the market?

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1960

61
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Over the 1980s and 1980s the weekly earnings of non-management workers fell by what percent?

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19%

62
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Which amendment to the US Constitution granted women the right to vote?

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19

63
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In Election Day in 1960 newspapers across the nation noted that for the first time in the nations history were there likely to be more women than men casting ballots for presidents?

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Yes

64
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In the 1960s as the economy was constantly creating employment what percent of those new jobs went to women?

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2/3rds// 66.7%

65
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After war thanks to an economic boom and generous federal spending on the 1950s how many percent of American families achieved middle class status?

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85%

66
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As people moved from rural eras into the cities and developed higher expectations for the next generation did children move from being an economic plus?

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No

67
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We’re both control giving women and employers more confidence about woman’s ability to plan for a career?

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Yes

68
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What are young adults today who grew up with mothers who marched into workplace and parents who forged innovative alternatives to traditional marriage called?

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Children of gender revolution

69
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According to the author children grew up in what kinds of families were the least ambivalent about their parents family structure arrangements

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Child of dual erna homes

70
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Based on the author s research what percentage of women plan to build a non-negotiable base of self-reliance and an independent identity in the world of paid work?

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75%

71
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What form of traditionalism for men supports a mothers right to work but protects mens claim that their work prospects should come first

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Modified

72
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What do plan A and plan B mean?

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Plan B- always keep when parents both work

73
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Do most men prefer a modified traditionalism that recognizes a mothers right to work but puts their own career first?

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Yes

74
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Regardless of class race or ethnicity were women interviewed willing to surrender their autonomy for a traditional marriage?

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No

75
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Was variation found among children who grew up in apparently similar family types?

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Yes

76
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Did the young women and men interviewed by the author tend to be more focused on what form their families took than how well their parents met the challenges of providing economic and emotional support?

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No

77
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How many percent of women plan to build a non-negationable base of self reliance and independent identity in the world of paid work?

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75%

78
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How to define a theory

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A tool used to understand and describe the world

79
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What are basic parts of theory

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Assumptions
Concepts
Propositions

80
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Functions of family theory

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Descriptive 
Sensitizing
Integrative  
Explanatory 
Value
81
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When we think of the family as a social group in what ways do families differ from such groups as co workers and networks of close friends

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Common residence economic cooperation and reproduction

82
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When studying the social exchange and rational choice framework the textbook outlines some basic assumptions

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People are motivated by self-interests, individuals are constrained by their choices, humans are rational beings, social relationships are also characterized by interdependence and reciprocity

83
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Know the main concepts of social exchange theory

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Rewards. Concepts. Profit. Comparison level. Comparison level for alternatives. Dependence commitment and persistence. Norm of reciprocity. Rule of distributive justice norm of fairness equity

84
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What is the symbolic interaction framework basically concerned with

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Personal relationships between husband and wife/ parents and children

85
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Is the symbolic content of any culture constantly static and never changes

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False

86
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The general focus of symbolic interactionism can be summed up as being the acquisition and generation of meaning. What does this mean?

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The meaning of personal relationships

87
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In reference to the system framework what have you learned?

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Much more Han a collection of individuals who live together and are related it had holistic quality

88
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What do we know about the scope of assumptions of system theory

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The whole is greater than the sum of the parts

89
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Basic concepts of system framework

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System. Boundaries. Hierarchy. Entropy. Family roles. Feedback. Equilibrium. Circular causality vs linear causality. identified patient. Double blind. Family cohesion. Family flexibility. Mutuality

90
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Family systems theory has been useful In Which areas of family studies?

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Communication and family typologies. Family health and illness. Family dynamics and functioning. Clinical contexts

91
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Where did feminists thought originate?

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Seneca Falls Convention in 1848

92
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What’s the distinction between gender and sex

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Gender is social meanings and behaviors ascribed to ones sex
Sex is ones biological assignments as genetically defined at birth

93
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Urie Bronfenbrenner “biological prospective”

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Physical basis for human behavior/you and your Environment

Microsystems. Mesosystsm. Exosystem. Macrosystem. Chronosystem.

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