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Chapter 1 Trends/Theories/Diversity

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show a family group consisting of parents and their biological or adopted children  
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show one parent and his or her biological or adopted children  
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blended family   show
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show one’s relatives beyond the nuclear and blended family level  
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show the social, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, and physical trust that is mutually shared between family members  
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socialization   show
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social construction of reality   show
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show all the ways the newborn is molded into a social being capable of interacting in and meeting the expectations of society  
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show occurs in later childhood and adolescence when children go to school and come under the influence of non-family members  
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show occurs as we assume adult roles such as wife/husband/employee/etc  
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show mothers who are not legally married at the time of the child’s birth  
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Ascribed status   show
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Achieved status   show
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show a status which stands out above other statuses and which distracts others from seeing who one really is  
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show the burden one feels due to the varied roles within any given status  
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show when the roles in one status come into conflict with the roles in another status  
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show set of two or more people who share a common identity, interact regularly, have shared expectations, and function in their mutually agreed upon roles  
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aggregate   show
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category   show
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Dyads   show
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triads   show
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primary groups   show
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show tend to be larger, more formal, and much less personal (e.g., a study group, an individual and his coworker.)  
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show private problems experienced within the character of the individual and the range of their immediate relation to others  
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Public issues   show
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show social processes rooted in society rather than in the individual  
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false social consciousness   show
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show the shared values, norms, symbols, language, objects, and way of life that is passed on from one generation to the next  
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show the tendency to judge others based on our own experiences  
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show the tendency to look for the cultural context in which differences in cultures occur  
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life chances   show
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family of origin   show
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family of procreation   show
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Demography   show
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natural increase   show
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show all in-migration minus all out-migration in a given population over a given time period  
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show sets of interrelated concepts and ideas that have been scientifically tested and combined to magnify, enlarge, clarify, and expand our understanding of people, their behaviors, and their families.  
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macro theories   show
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micro theories,   show
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STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALISM THEORY   show
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Equilibrium   show
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show claims that society is composed of ever-present interactions among individuals who share symbols and their meanings  
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The Thomas Theorem   show
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show the family is understood best by conceptualizing it as a complex, dynamic, and changing collection of parts, subsystems and family members  
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show distinct emotional, psychological, or physical separateness between individuals, roles, and subsystems in the family  
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show When a family experiences a crisis, often these boundaries are rearranged.  
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Family Developmental Theory   show
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show Stage 1: Married Couples without Children.  
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show Stage 2: Childbearing Families which starts at the birth of the first child and continues until the oldest child is 2½ years old.  
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stage 3 of the family life cycle   show
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show Stage 4: Families with Schoolchildren where the oldest child is 6-13 years old.  
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show Stage 5: Families with Teenagers where the oldest child is 13-20 years old.  
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stage 6 of the family life cycle   show
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show Stage 7: Middle-Age Parents which continues until retirement.  
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show Stage 8: Aging Families which continues until the death of one spouse.  
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show growth responsibilities that arise at certain stages in the life of the family.  
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social exchange theory   show
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show rewards or costs which are received or incurred by actors from each other in an exchange relationship.  
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show possessions or behavioral capabilities (human capital) which have value to others and to oneself (e.g., a husband’s job and income have value to his wife)  
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show the variety of possible exchange relations available to individuals.  
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show the individual who is less dependent will have the most power, or the power advantage  
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Ecological Theory   show
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show immediate social settings in which an individual is involved in  
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mesosystem   show
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show settings in which the person does not actively participate but in which significant decisions are made affecting other individuals who do interact directly with the person  
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macrosystem   show
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show encompasses change or consistency over time in the characteristics of the person and the environment in which the person lives (e.g., changes in family structure, SES, place of residence and community, society, cultural, and historical changes)  
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Feminist theory   show
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positivism   show
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show why societies remain the same  
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show why societies change  
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objectivity   show
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show people who use their agency to make choices based on their varied motivations  
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hypothesis   show
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probability samples   show
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nonprobability sampling   show
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show each member of the population has an equal chance of being selected  
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Convenience sampling   show
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quantitative data   show
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qualitative data   show
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show the study must actually test what you intended to test  
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reliability   show
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surveys   show
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Polls   show
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show the percentage of people who complete your survey  
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show questions that are accurate and measure what they claim they’ll measure  
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show questions that are relatively free from bias errors which might taint the findings  
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Open-ended questions   show
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show questions designed to get respondents to choose from a list of responses you provide to them  
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show statements which respondents are asked to agree or disagree with  
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Demographic questions   show
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Nominal level data   show
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Ordinal level data   show
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Interval level data   show
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show adds a real zero starting point for the numerical values  
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show vary by respondent  
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show change in response to the influence of independent variables; they depend upon the independent variables  
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show variables that when manipulated will stimulate a change upon the dependent variables  
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show the arithmetic score of all the numbers divided by the total number of students  
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show the exact midpoint value in the ordered list of scores  
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show the number which occurs most often  
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show the especially low or high numbers in the series  
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show standards of what is right and wrong  
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secondary analysis   show
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