Test 1, Ch 1-3

Question 1

• Any sexually expensive /parent /child or other relationship
  -Related by ancestry, marriage, adoption,
  -form an economic unit
  -care for any young
  -consider their identity to be significantly attached to the group.
  -committed to maintaining the group over time.

Answer 1

Family

Question 2

-Ability to ask any questions with reason to give any answer that can be justified (and learning prejudice and bias aside)

Answer 2

Critical Thinking

Question 3

Ability to understand the relationship between individual occurrences and society at large

Answer 3

Social Imagination

Question 4

Decisions made by people unaware of the alternatives

Answer 4

Choosing by Default

Question 5

Any group where there is a close face-to-face relationship

Answer 5

Primary Group

Question 6

Characterized by more distant and practical and unemotional relationship

Answer 6

Secondary Group

Question 7

Larger kin group who usually sacrifice the needs of individual family members for the needs of the entire group.

Answer 7

Extended Family

Question 8

any group living together

Answer 8

Household

Question 9

families that exhibit multiplicity of forms and continue to change

Answer 9

Post-modern

Question 10

remarried

Answer 10

Blended familty

Question 11

Family members have different legal statuses

Answer 11

Bi-national

Question 12

Interracial or ethnic

Answer 12

Multicultural

Question 13

-rationale behind changing
-cultural change toward excessive individualism and self indulgence has hurt relationships, led to high divorce rates, and undermines responsible parenting
-Parenting processes change and continue to change
-More expression and freedom at an early age

Answer 13

Family decline perspective

Question 14

-rationale behind changing
-Changes in the family result from historical adjustments that occur normally.
-occur routinely in society, things change with time. (family)

Answer 14

Family Change perspective

Question 15

1. New biological and communication technologies (medicine and new emerging)
2. Economic conditions
3. historical periods or events
4. demographic factors (Statistical facts about makeup of population)
5. Family policy (i.e. Roe v. Wade, vaccination of kids or in general)

Answer 15

5 Factors that affect families

Question 16

4 historical periods
1. Both World Wars
2.Great Depression of 1929
3. Women and children went to work
4. Fewer marriages and birth rates declined

Answer 16

1900-1949

Question 17

4 Historical periods
1. Korean War
2. Marriages increase
3. Childbirth rates increase
4.G.I. Bill was passed
4a. Supported service men in getting college education
5. Public housing was passed

Answer 17

1950-1959

Question 18

4 Historical periods
1. Legislation passed laws that gave minorities many major rights
1a. Women could go to college, equal opportunity
2. Divorce rates increased
2a. Women could divorce
2b. courts recognized women to get out
2c. Men were given ultimatums to pay child support
3. Marriages stabilized

Answer 18

1960-1999

Question 19

4 historical periods
1. Recession of 2008
2. Divorces were high (failing marriages)
3. Gay and lesbian movement- established among populations!
- freedom of speech (started in the 60s.)

Answer 19

2000-Present

Question 20

Views of reality depending on the window you look out of. Your view will change.

Answer 20

Theoretical perspective

Question 21

-how the family influences the environment and how the environment influences the family.
This perspective is TOO broad and that’s an issue/ problem

Answer 21

Family ecology perspective

Question 22

Investigates how a given social structure functions to fill basic societal needs
-(family roles)
-Historical roles: function
1. socialization of the young.
2. status conferred- you are what your family is. (fam stat is middle class you are middle class. Adoption is exception)
3. economically supporting members (ex., calling dad for money)
4. Reputation of sexual behavior (ever changing; boys and girls treated differently)
5.Protection of family
6. responsible for affection and companionship

Answer 22

Structural-functional perspective

Question 23

Focuses on relationships among family members.
-focuses on use of labels and symbols in understanding family relationships

Answer 23

Interaction Constructionist perspective

Question 24

Family members and relationships between them are based on costs and rewards
–> rewards and cost don’t always yield financial gain

Answer 24

Exchange perspective

Question 25

Suggests that people are predisposed of certain behaviors
-genetics, etc.
–argument of nature vs. nurture biosocial theorist argument
people as they are because of nature.(genetic makeup)
nurture- Environment- taught, experienced
Nurture wins, but nature does play a part

Answer 25

Biosocial perspective

Question 26

Children develop in a certain style, attaching or not attaching to other people.
-parents teach us to be that way.
-3 forms.
1. Secure- develop trust relationships quickly
2. Insecure- develop trust relations with difficulty, without parent being around
3. Avoidant- children avoid communication, attaching, Could be many reasons for this

Answer 26

attachment perspective

Question 27

a set of logically interrelated statements that attempt to describe, explain, or predict a social event

Answer 27

Theory

Question 28

an educated guess

Answer 28

Hypothesis

Question 29

systematic process for collecting information for the purpose of testing theories or for the purpose of creating new theories.

Answer 29

research

Question 30

extent to which a study yields the same results consistently

Answer 30

validity

Question 31

the extent to which a study or research accurately measures what it’s supposed to measure

Answer 31

reliability

Question 32

begin with a theory and conduct research to prove or disprove a theory

Answer 32

deductive reasoning

Question 33

begins with a collection of data and information in order to create a theory

Answer 33

inductive reasoning