FAML 400 Exam II Questions with All Correct Answers
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FAML 400 Exam II Questions with All Correct Answers
What is Symbolic Interactionism Theory? - Answer- A Theory stating that people will react to something according to the meaning that thing has for them (the meaning being created through our interactions with society, culture, and other peopl...
FAML 400 Exam II Questions with
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What is Symbolic Interactionism Theory? - Answer- A Theory stating that people will
react to something according to the meaning that thing has for them (the meaning being
created through our interactions with society, culture, and other people)
It fits into the "It depends" category of Interpretive Theories. There are many different
ways to interpret interactions using this theory.
This theory is one of the most impactful theories in the study of family relationships.
Play Stage - Answer- Use gestures or practice behaviors associated with different roles.
Game Stage - Answer- Take perspective of many people at one time and see how
individual fits within that group.
Symbolic Interactionism Theory Assumptions - Answer- Most people react to the
meaning of the thing.
The meaning is often learned from others.
A human infant is asocial meaning they are a blank canvas.
A sense of self provides motivation for future behavior.
People are influenced by society.
Everyday interactions provides learning opportunities of rules and values in society.
Ditriangulation - Answer- A third nonreactive (differentiated) person (or God) who
establishes relationship, neutrality, and responsibility.
Coalition Triangles - Answer- Prior to actually forming a coalition triangle, both partners
simultaneously attempt to draw a third person into alliance against the other partner.
First, they displace God from a neutral position. Second, in their preoccupation with
blame, they avoid shared respbnsibility with its focus on productive change.
Displacement Triangles - Answer- In a displacement triangle, couple conflict is diffused
through displacement of anxiety onto a third person, who then becomes the focus of the
couple's negative energy. Unity is created through mobilizing against the "common
, enemy." Displacement triangles compromise differentiation in the God-couple
relationship at two points. First, they shatter God's beneficent relationship with the
couple. Second, such triangles project responsibility for marital problems onto God.
Substitutive Triangles - Answer- In substitutive triangles, the relationship with a third
person substitutes for and diverts from the original dyadic relationship. In one subtype of
substitutive triangles, the detouring- supporting type, conflict is diffused by the two
people rallying in support of the "common cause," usually the "sick" or "needy" triangled
person
one or both spouses manage their anxiety by distancing from their marital partner and
striving for surrogate intimacy with God.
What is Structural Functionalism Theory? - Answer- The function of families is to
procreate and socialize children. This theory posits that this is best done by the
benchmark family, its terms for the traditional nuclear family of husband, wife, and
children with father performing traditional male roles of providing (meeting instrumental
needs) and mother primarily meeting the family's expressive (emotional and
psychological) needs.
conformity - Answer- No deviance, social norm
innovation - Answer- Being both conforming and deviant (e.g. man who attains material
success but attains it in an illegal way)
ritualism - Answer- person tries because it is a ritual but never meets expectations
retreatism - Answer- drug addicts, homeless people who retreat from cultural norms
rebellion - Answer-
Equilibrium - Answer- Any human system will resist change - families work best when
things are in balance
Deviant behavior - Answer- Behaviors that deviate from social norms
Structure - Answer- The composition of the family
Instrumental - Answer- Tasks that need to be performed within a family to ensure its
physical survival
Which of the following research questions would most likely be addressed with
Structural Functionalism Theory? - Answer- The impact of single parent families on
children
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