Test 1, Ch 1-3 Flashcards
- 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.
Family
-Ability to ask any questions with reason to give any answer that can be justified (and learning prejudice and bias aside)
Critical Thinking
Ability to understand the relationship between individual occurrences and society at large
Social Imagination
Decisions made by people unaware of the alternatives
Choosing by Default
Any group where there is a close face-to-face relationship
Primary Group
Characterized by more distant and practical and unemotional relationship
Secondary Group
Larger kin group who usually sacrifice the needs of individual family members for the needs of the entire group.
Extended Family
any group living together
Household
families that exhibit multiplicity of forms and continue to change
Post-modern
remarried
Blended familty
Family members have different legal statuses
Bi-national
Interracial or ethnic
Multicultural
-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
Family decline perspective
-rationale behind changing
-Changes in the family result from historical adjustments that occur normally.
-occur routinely in society, things change with time. (family)
Family Change perspective
- New biological and communication technologies (medicine and new emerging)
- Economic conditions
- historical periods or events
- demographic factors (Statistical facts about makeup of population)
- Family policy (i.e. Roe v. Wade, vaccination of kids or in general)
5 Factors that affect families
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
1900-1949
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
1950-1959
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
1960-1999
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.)
2000-Present
Views of reality depending on the window you look out of. Your view will change.
Theoretical perspective
-how the family influences the environment and how the environment influences the family.
This perspective is TOO broad and that’s an issue/ problem
Family ecology perspective
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
Structural-functional perspective
Focuses on relationships among family members.
-focuses on use of labels and symbols in understanding family relationships
Interaction Constructionist perspective
Family members and relationships between them are based on costs and rewards
–> rewards and cost don’t always yield financial gain
Exchange perspective
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
Biosocial perspective
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
attachment perspective
a set of logically interrelated statements that attempt to describe, explain, or predict a social event
Theory
an educated guess
Hypothesis
systematic process for collecting information for the purpose of testing theories or for the purpose of creating new theories.
research
extent to which a study yields the same results consistently
validity
the extent to which a study or research accurately measures what it’s supposed to measure
reliability
begin with a theory and conduct research to prove or disprove a theory
deductive reasoning
begins with a collection of data and information in order to create a theory
inductive reasoning
