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TERM 2
family
DEFINITION 2
Two or more people related by blood, marriage, or adoption,
whom support each other and bear/raise children
TERM 3
traditional family
DEFINITION 3
husband is breadwinner, wife is homemaker, and children
(28% of American families in 2007)
TERM 4
non-family
DEFINITION 4
roommates, live alone, cohabitating
TERM 5
why does definition of family matter?
DEFINITION 5
social security laws, health and dental benefits,
hospital/health care/legal/educational decision-making
Benokraitis's definition of family
intimate group of two or more people, live together in
commited relationship,care for each other and any
children,share activities and emotional ties
TERM 7
fictive kin
DEFINITION 7
non-relatives accepted b/c of strong bonds with biological
family members, and provide important services and care
(e.g. neighbors, family friends)
TERM 8
family of origin
DEFINITION 8
biological parents and relatives
TERM 9
family of
orientation
DEFINITION 9
parents with adopted children
TERM 10
family of procreation
DEFINITION 10
leaving parents and creating your own family
endogamy
married to someone of same race and religion
TERM 17
homogamy
DEFINITION 17
married to someone with similar traits
TERM 18
exogamy
DEFINITION 18
married to someone from a differenttribe or social class(also
called interracial marriage)
TERM 19
heterogamy
DEFINITION 19
married to someone with different traits than you
TERM 20
five functions of family
DEFINITION 20
regulate sexual activity,procreation and socialization of
children,economic support,emotional support,social class
placement
patrilocal
families
newly-weds live with husband's family
TERM 22
matrilocal
families
DEFINITION 22
newly-weds live with wife's family
TERM 23
neolocal
families
DEFINITION 23
newly-weds live in their own residence (most common in
industrialized countries)
TERM 24
patriarchy authority
DEFINITION 24
oldest males control resources
TERM 25
matriarchy authority
DEFINITION 25
oldest females control resources
ecological model
created by Urie Bronfenbrenner,nested set of structures (like
Russian dolls, one inside another)
TERM 32
microsystem
DEFINITION 32
face to face setting,family, school, work, church, etc.,child
affects and is affected directly
TERM 33
mesosystem
DEFINITION 33
Between two or more systems,home and school is prime
example,
TERM 34
exosystem
DEFINITION 34
two or more systems not directly related to developing
child,still indirectly influences child,parent's workplace,
neighborhood, family social networks
TERM 35
macrosystem
DEFINITION 35
culture, bodies of knowledge, technological changes,
recessions, etc.,basically a societal blueprint for culture
chronosystem
changes that occur over time for person and environment,
such as SES, employment, family structure, and residence
TERM 37
system
DEFINITION 37
interatted elements that make a family a system
TERM 38
family system theory
DEFINITION 38
from general systems theory,family is unit of
analysis,patterns of interactions that change over time,and
components of family all affect each other
TERM 39
subsystems
DEFINITION 39
two or three more people,own rules and boundaries
TERM 40
executive
subsystem
DEFINITION 40
parental/spousal subsystem
rigid boundaries
poor communication b/w family members, little change in
family system, often in dysfunctional or abusive families
TERM 47
where child's problems come from
DEFINITION 47
usually a result of conflict in family system (drugs/alcohol,
abuse, etc.)
TERM 48
equifinality
DEFINITION 48
many beginnings but same ending (different kids, but all
graduate same year)
TERM 49
equipotentiality
DEFINITION 49
same beginnings but different endings (kids born in same
hospital but take different life paths)
TERM 50
first order change
DEFINITION 50
changes in family system but same family structure (new
habits adopted into family life, but same members)
second order change
changes in family structure and new rules to help family,
empathy to other family members, mostly positive but can
be negative (new baby in family so everyone contributes to
infant care)
TERM 52
creator of family systems theory
DEFINITION 52
Murray Bowen, worked with schizophrenics
TERM 53
family of legacy
DEFINITION 53
experiences that influence you and further generations,
effective and ineffective strategies passed down
TERM 54
patterns in
families
DEFINITION 54
generated by past and present experiences
TERM 55
most important unfinished business in
everyone's life
DEFINITION 55
unresolved family conflict
low differentiation
unresolved attachment to family, low individuality
TERM 62
high differentiation
DEFINITION 62
can be individual without living vicariously or solely
dependent on family
TERM 63
interpersonal/interpsychic differentiation
DEFINITION 63
separate feelings from logic
TERM 64
intra-familial differentiation
DEFINITION 64
degree of tolerance for individuality anddifferencesin family
TERM 65
balance of differentiation
DEFINITION 65
separate emotions from logic,balance between closeness to
family and maintaining individuality
tolerance
regulation of boundaries,managing emotional
climate,execution of identity tasks (fused or cut-off)
TERM 67
triangle
DEFINITION 67
unresolved conflict between two people draws in another
person
TERM 68
third person in triangle
DEFINITION 68
freezes but doesn't resolve conflict,family peace is
impossible
TERM 69
common couple triangles
DEFINITION 69
affair, in-lawssubstance abuse, gambling, work, hobbies,
pets
TERM 70
parent-child triangles
DEFINITION 70
child scapegoat,child mediator,perverse (alliance with one
parent, hostile to other parent)
normal family development
families are on continuum,well-differentiated,no
triangles,little anxiety,resolves conflict with family of origin
TERM 77
genograms
DEFINITION 77
like a family tree but really a tree of your relationships with
your family members, with at least three generations to
notice patterns
TERM 78
who uses genograms?
DEFINITION 78
clinicians,geneticists
TERM 79
three primary assumptions
DEFINITION 79
families are systems,personal characteristics,patterns repeat
TERM 80
horizontal transmission
DEFINITION 80
current stresses passed on to other family members
vertical transmission
patterns passed down the generations
