FAML 400: FAMILY THEORIES FINAL EXAM |GUARANTEED PASS
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FAML 400: Family Theorie
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FAML 400: Family Theorie
Positivism - Accurate Answers Very objective world view/ scientific paradigm. There is only one truth and it does not depend on beliefs or opinions.
Example: Social Exchange Theory, Structural Functionalism, Family Developmental Theory
Interpretive - Accurate Answers There is no real one tru...
FAML 400: FAMILY THEORIES
FINAL EXAM |GUARANTEED PASS
Positivism - Accurate Answers✔✔✔ Very objective world view/
scientific paradigm. There is only one truth and it does not depend on
beliefs or opinions.
Example: Social Exchange Theory, Structural Functionalism, Family
Developmental Theory
Interpretive - Accurate Answers✔✔✔ There is no real one truth, it
depends because everyone sees it in their own perspective
ex: Symbolic Interactionism, Family Systems Theory
Conflict Paradigm - Accurate Answers✔✔✔ Oppressor wants to keep
things the same, the oppressed want to change things
ex: Feminist Theory (have and have not), Conflict Theory
Inductive Reasoning - Accurate Answers✔✔✔ Research can form our
theories.
INFORMATION>PATTERN>TENTATIVE HYPOTHESIS>THEORY
,Specific (observation) to Broad (Theory)
Deductive Reasoning - Accurate Answers✔✔✔ Theories inform our
research
THEORY>HYPOTHESIS>OBSERVATION>CONFIRMATION
Broad (theories) to specific (observation)
Assumption - Accurate Answers✔✔✔ Are basic beliefs that are taken
for granted or believed to be true or to be taken as true without being
tested
Theory - Accurate Answers✔✔✔ Tool used to understand and describe
the world
- a theory is a general framework of ideas and how they relate to each
other. Theories can be sued to ask and answer questions about particular
phenomena
Proposition - Accurate Answers✔✔✔ statements that demonstrate how
concepts fit together in a context. They are the relationships between the
concepts, the "glue" holding the theory together.
Blau's four conditions - Accurate Answers✔✔✔ I. The fewer services
people can supply in return for the receipt of particularly valued
, services, the more those providing these particularly valued services can
extract compliance.
II. The fewer alternative sources of rewards people have, the more those
providing valuable services can extract compliance.
III. The less those receiving valuable services from particular individuals
can employ physical force and coercion, the more those providing the
services can extract compliance.
IV. The less those receiving the valuable services can do without them,
the more those providing the services can extract compliance
Homan's rationality proposition - Accurate Answers✔✔✔ Rationality
Proposition: In choosing between alternative actions, a person will
choose that one for which, as perceived by him or her at the time, the
value of the result, multiplied by the probability of getting that result, is
greater.
What paradigm is family systems theory in? - Accurate Answers✔✔✔
Interpretive
Assumptions of Family Systems Theory - Accurate Answers✔✔✔ - The
whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
- Individual & family behavior must be understood in context.
- A 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."
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