This theory offered a huge paradigm shift from viewing living systems as objects to viewing living systems as consisting of a web of relationships.
What is Systems theory?
100
The general term that refers to a families' composition and organization.
What is structure?
100
Invisible lines of demarcation that delineate one system or subsystem from another or the surrounding environment.
What is a Boundary?
100
Recurring patterns of interaction that define what is expected or permitted in family transactions
What are Family rules?
100
The families' ability to operate as a self-regulating system.
What is Self regulation/ Homeostasis?
200
The combination of elements or parts produces a ?
What is a whole?
200
The term that refers to a families membership.
What is Composition?
200
Delineates who is part of the family and who is not.
What are external boundaries?
200
Rules about the rules (define how the rules get changed in a family)
What are Meta rules?
200
Term which describes the ease with which members and information cross the boundary from one subsystem to another.
What is Openness?
300
A configuration of elements or parts connected together by a web of relationships.
What is a System?
300
The purpose for which a system is designed.
What is Goal?
300
Families, peer groups, school, mass media and technology, the state...
What are Agents of socialization?
300
Explicitly and openly stated recurring patterns of interaction that define what is expected or permitted in family transactions.
What are Overt rules?
300
Those family systems that are able to adapt in response to changes that occur within the family system or from outside.
What are Open systems?
400
The idea that systems must be understood in their entirety.
What is wholeness?
400
The term that refers to the tasks that a family must fulfill for society and family alike.
What is Function?
400
Those parts of the overall system assigned to carry out particular functions or processes within the system as a whole. Siblings, parents, spousal are the main ones.
What is a Subsystem?
400
Implicit unwritten patterns of interaction that define what is expected or permitted in family transactions.
What are Covert rules.
400
A type of family system in which needs for even the modest changes are met with rigidity.
What is a Closed system?
500
The idea that individuals and subsystems are mutually dependent and mutually influenced by one another. A term that describes the idea of how change in one part reverberates throughout the system.
What is Interdependence?
500
Elements of the family experience that become a families' organizing principles.
What is Family themes?
500
Lines of demarcation that help define individual autonomy and the autonomy of subsystems.
What are Internal boundaries?
500
The specific policies the family adopts to accomplish its tasks
What are Strategies?
500
Capacity of a system to change its rules and strategies in response to stress.