Terms and Concepts 1
Anything can be thought of as this, these are the products of social interaction, and language is the most powerful example of this.
What is a symbol?
This is a social behavior between two or more people during which some type of communication takes place.
What is an interaction?
According to the four foundations of symbolic interactionism, meaning comes not from objects themselves, but from this.
What are our interactions with objects?
This is a unit bounded by a set of interrelated elements and which exhibits coherent behaviors.
What is a system?
This refers to the multiple perspectives that each family member may bring to family therapy.
What is a multiverse?
This is a set of social norms for a specific situations. This could also be called a "part."
What is a role?
This refers to the amount of importance something is to us. We divide our time among each of our roles based on the amount of this that the role has in our lives.
What is salience?
During this stage of developing a sense of self, the child tries to use gestures to practice the behaviors associated with different roles.
What is the play stage?
This describes a system’s tendency toward growth, creativity, change and innovation.
What is morphogenesis?
This is the goal of therapy according to second-order cybernetics.
What is a change in the context?
Roles that are most salient for us are also those that are most likely to define this.
What is our identity?
These are acts that represent something else.
What are gestures?
During this stage, children begin to take on the perspectives of many people at one time and to see how the individual fits in that group.
What is the game stage?
This refers to how in determining the origins of problems, general system theory departs radically from tradition by acknowledging that what things do, say, or feel mutually influence on another in a recursive, circular relationship.
What is circular causality?
This refers to how different paths can lead to the same ending.
What is equifinality?
Because we want others to have a good impression of us, we will take on roles in public that fit within the social norms of our current environment according to the notion of this.
What is impression management?
These are the social norms families have for how they interact with each other during holidays or special events, and symbols and gestures are an important part of these too.
What are rituals?
This is the premise that individuals think about how they appear to others, make a judgment about what the other person thinks about them, and then incorporate those ideas into their own concept of self.
What is the looking-glass self?
This is the name of the person who developed General Systems Theory.
Who is Ludwig von Bertalanffy?
This refers to self-generating. Triple points for stating its opposite!
What is autopoiesis? (opposite is allopoiesis)
These are expectations about how to act in a given situation.
What are social norms?
These are the three overarching themes of symbolic interactionism according to the EXPLORING text.
What are meaning, self-concept, and a discussion of society?
This event in time left people feeling that they had little or no control over their lives. During this time people were moving from rural areas to urban areas.
What was the industrial revolution?
This is the name of an American mathematician and philosopher who developed the framework of Cybernetics.
Who is Norbert Weiner?
These are the six basic assumptions of systems theory.
What are the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, individual and family behavior must be understood in context, the family is a goal-seeking system, a family is a self-reflexive and self-regulating system continually influenced by feedback, family systems are defined by their communication, and the locus of pathology is not within the person but is a system dysfunction?