What is a Family?
Disciplines of Social Science
Theories
Family Change Over Time
Research & Social Science
100

According to the Vanier Institute, a family is two or more people who are connected over time and care for one another.

What is a family definition based on responsibility and relationships?

100

This discipline studies culture, traditions, and kinship.


Answer: What is anthropology?

100

This theory focuses on stability and how institutions maintain social order.


Answer: What is functionalism?

100

Families livining in large groups of relatives.


Answer: What are extended families?

100

Social scientists try to separate this from facts.


Answer: What are beliefs or opinions?

200

This term describes expectations for behaviour tied to a position in society (like parent or student).


What is a social role?

200

This discipline studies patterns of behaviour in groups and society.


Answer: What is sociology?

200

This theory explains families as interconnected systems where one change affects everyone.


Answer: What is systems theory?

200

Period when families often moved to towns and cities to work in factories.


Answer:Industrialization

200

This process is used to study human behaviour using evidence.


Answer: What is the research inquiry process?

300

Families help society by raising children, teaching values, and providing emotional support.

Answer: What are functions of the family?

Answer: What are functions of the family?

300

This discipline studies individual behaviour and mental processes.


Answer: What is psychology?

300

This theory explains behaviour based on the meanings people give to situations.


Answer: What is symbolic interactionism?

300

The family structure of parents and children living together is called this.


Answer: What is a nuclear family?

300

The first step of research is identifying these important ideas.


Answer: What are key concepts?

400

These are expected patterns of behaviour in a society.


Answer: What are social norms?

400

This term describes the tendency to judge other cultures by your own cultural standards.


Answer: What is ethnocentrism?

400

This theory explains relationships using costs and benefits.


Answer: What is social exchange theory?

400

After WWII, Canada experienced this period of large family growth.


Answer: What is the Baby Boom?

400

These are the important words used to search for information.


Answer: What are keywords or key terms?

500

Name two ways society supports families.


Answer examples:

  • schools

  • healthcare

  • government laws

  • social programs

  • employment systems

500

This type of study examines society on a large scale.


Answer: What is macro-level research?

500

This theory focuses on power, inequality, and competition for resources.


Answer: What is conflict theory?

500

Today’s Canadian families are best described as this.


Answer: What is diverse and adaptable?

500

A strong research question should be focused and complex, not this.


Answer: What is too broad or too simple?