FAML 400 Exam 2 Questions and Answers All Correct
Structural Functionalism assumptions - Answer- The function of families is to procreate and socialize children
All systems have functions
Procreation and socialization of children are central.
instrumental - Answer- provide for physical nee...
Structural Functionalism assumptions - Answer- The function of families is to procreate
and socialize children
All systems have functions
Procreation and socialization of children are central.
instrumental - Answer- provide for physical needs, focused on making sure problems
are solved and tasks are accomplished
expressive - Answer- emotional needs of family members, those things that must be
done to maintain the culture and our relationships, keep people involved and integrated,
and help to manage and resolve internal conflict and tension.
Five pattern variables that reflect the value orientation of individuals and societies as
they make decisions about what actions to take( expressive/ instrumental) - Answer-
ascription/achievement
Diffuseness/specificity
Particularism/universalism
Collectivity/self
Ascription/Achievement - Answer- what is earned vs what is biologically predetermined
ascription - Answer- describes your individual status, race, sex, family status
achievement - Answer- those things that you earn base on your performance.
Diffuseness/specificity - Answer- the function of relations, or the nature of our
relationships and how broad or narrow their expectations
Diffuseness - Answer- you have a wide variety of rel that meet a large range of needs
specificity - Answer- you develop rel that meet a specific need
Particularism/universalism - Answer- a range of people with whom we come into
contact.
, Particularism - Answer- the fact that our behaviors are guided by the person with whom
we are interacting and the nature of the rel(like I become a different person when I'm
home when I'm around my parent)
universalism - Answer- the fact that we behave in certain ways based on the norms and
values that guide our behavior as a societal level that indicates what we should and
should not do
Collectivity/self - Answer- when performing an action
Collectivity - Answer- the focus on the interests of others or the social group of which
one is apart
Self - Answer- the focus on one's own interest.
Structure - Answer- composition of the family, what kind of/ who is in
Function - Answer- what service does the family provide in society? We can best
understand the purpose of any organization by looking at it's function
Equilibrium - Answer- any human system will resist change.
family members seem to function best when things are in balance.
Balance is most easily achieved when family members share the same values and
goals and when they perform differentiated roles.
The Benchmark Family - Answer- traditional nuclear family composed of a husband, a
wife, and their children, with husband as breadwinner and wife and homemaker.
Deviant Behavior - Answer- can still play a useful role in the theory and family
Conformity - Answer- nondeviance is the same as conformity.
Innovation - Answer- based on being both conforming and deviant. This is not good. It's
like a mom who tries to have it all but uses drugs to give her the boost she needs to
accomplish everything she feels she should do.
Ritualism - Answer- continuing a pattern of behavior, even if it isn't successful, because
this is always how it's been.
Retratism- - Answer- refers the the person who rejects both the normative goals and the
means to obtain them. Drug addicts or homeless people.
Rebellion - Answer- rebellious individuals are similar to those in the previous category,
except that they also attempt to create a new social structure
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