Sociological Perspectives
This perspective weighs the cost/benefit analysis to understand human behavior.
What is Exchange Theory?
Julia makes sure her son Bruce gets a healthy breakfast and brushes his teeth before school each morning. Which Function of the Family might this refer to?
What is Physical maintenance and care of group members?
A couple living together for the past 3 years in a romantic relationship, although they are not legally married and do not have children.
What is Common Law?
Dumbledore enforces strict rules upon his students at Hogwarts; if a student steps out of line, Dumbledore has several creative punishments such as writing lines in detention with Professor Umbridge. Which parenting style might Dumbledore have?
What is Authoritarian Teaching?
A type of event such as a cancer diagnosis
What is a non-normative event
Based in ideas from Karl Marx, this perspective is used to examine sociological phenomena through the lens of power versus oppression; what Marx called the Bourgeoise and Proletariat.
What is Conflict Theory?
A family or family member(s) related by blood.
What is Consanguinity?
No-fault divorce in which couples could state “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for divorce was introduced in ____________.
A cross-cultural expectation to organize family events and maintain contact with family members; typically taken on by women
What is a Kin Keeper?
A stage in which adults feel the need to contribute to something bigger than themselves.
What is Erikson's 7th stage defining “Generativity”
This perspective is used to understand how events occurring in one’s environment and society can affect individuals at multiple levels.
What is Bronfenbrenner's System Theory?
The adoption of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children by non-Indigenous families, which occurred in the 1960s up until the beginning of the 1980s.
What does the Sixties Scoop refer to?
This Theory states that we “filter” through eligible partners to find our mate.
What is Murstein’s Filter Theory?
A grandparent with full custody of grandchildren.
What is a custodial grandparent?
This type of generativity describes passing on traditions, art, music…
What is Cultural Generativity?
This perspective analyzes society by addressing the subjective meanings that people impose on objects, events, and behaviors.
What is Symbolic Interactionism?
In the 1990s, sociologist Barbara Mitchell coined these terms to describe emerging adulthood.
What is "Failure to Launch” and “Generation Boomerang”?
The process by which an individual learns attitudes, norms, and values.
What is Socialization?
In Canada, the most likely family to experience poverty is:
What is a single mother household
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, a psychiatrist, and prominent death theorist, designed these 5 ordered stages of grief
What is Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
What is something intended, something not directly intended.
This ancient Hebrew practice outlined that if a wife died, she would be replaced by a sister or close female relative to help her widowed husband and children.
What is Sororate Obligation?
Why has the term Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) replaced “Domestic Violence”?
IPV is a more inclusive term which covers all types of intimate relationships, gender, and infers that violence does not just happen in the home.
What type of parenting style is the following scenerio :
What is Authoritative Parenting Style?
Empty Nest Syndrome was supposedly a crisis for:
Who are women with children grown up and moved out.