Family Systems Theory
all parts are connected/interrelated
What does family systems theory assume when describing any entity?
Nature and assignment of family roles evolve over time.
What is the change assumption?
Family is an energy transformation system.
What is family ecology?
An individual's age the ordering of events, context, and historical sequence that identify the impact of prior experiences upon subsequent development.
What is the chronosystem?
Social groups struggle for domination over others and compete for limited resources.
What is social conflict theory?
many causes that can lead to one single outcome
What is Equipotentiality?
What does Family life course theory argue changes in family role must be examined by?
What are different levels (i.e. family, community)?
Events, developmental processes, and family relationships experienced in an individual's immediate surroundings.
What is a microsystem?
Each individual seeks to maximize individual self-interest.
What is rational choice theory?
Stress lines are sociological factors (age, gender, religion, ability ethnicity, class, sexuality).
What is conflict?
viewing the family as a whole
What does systems theory holds that understanding family life requires?
What we do in life early on has a significant impact in our lives later.
What is Epigenesis?
How the microsystem interconnects the individual and family to events that may not be experienced directly.
What is the mesosystem?
partners in a relationship work toward a balance of resources that each brings to the relationship.
What is the principle of equity?
Ranking in social hierarchy based on birth, individual achievement.
What is Class?
as family entities attempt to reach goals, they have to respond (balance) constantly to the changes that happen in their world
What is equilibrium?
The choices we make early in our lives affect who we become and.......?
What is, we can overcome the choices we make in times of family transitions.
Broader social institutions which structure society.
What is exosystem?
Focuses on the subjective aspects of social life (how people interpret social surroundings), rather than on objective, macro-structural aspects of social systems.
What is a micro level form of analysis?
No consensus on social values and norms, all aspects of society are challenged.
What is contested?
any outcome imagined that can be brought about by multiple causes.
What is Equifinality?
Beliefs, customs, attitudes, expectations, desires, education
What are factors of social change?
Ideologies, organization, values, attitudes, ways of thinking evident in a culture
What is the macrosystem?
Society consists of organized and patterned interactions among humans, who are pragmatic actors and adjust behaviour to actions of other actors.
What is symbolic interactionism?
Society either will or should evolve
What is Change?