Chapter 10: Family Interaction Patters
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 family | network of people who live together over long periods of time bound by ties of marriage, blood, or commitment, legal or otherwise |
| subsystems | may vary from the husband-wife, parent-child, or brother-sister dyad to temporary coalitions formed by one group of family members against another |
| family structure | various working orders developed by the entire family |
| family functions | services it provides for its members and the society at large |
| evolution | how the family adapts to the developmental changes and personal needs of its members as well as to the changing social and economic needs of the culture |
| power | ability (potential or actual) to change the behavior of other family members |
| positional structure | first type of family; lines of authority are hierarchically arranged |
| person-oriented structure | second type of family |
| decision-making structure | family is likely to develop a particular decision-making style or use a different style to handle different kinds of decision |
| consensus | least common, but most admirable, style of decision; family reaches consensus when its members try to make a unanimous decision, seeking input from all members, negotiating differences of opinion or values and finding a solution that everyone feels is satisfactory |
| accommodation | process in which less articulate or less dominating members of the family given in to those who hold the power or are more persistent |
| de facto decision | a single member of the family acts alone or the matter is decided by events, usually after a period of unproductive discussion |
| communication network | typical patterns of interaction within a family |
| boundaries | rules defining who participates and how |
| open family | one that encourages its members to experience a wide variety of social life and then share those experiences with the rest of the family, providing a constant source of new ideas |
| closed family | reacts to the larger society with a little more suspicion or indifferences; "the family that plays together stays together" |
| random family | boundaries are not very clearly drawn and may be a frequent source of misunderstanding and dispute |
| emmeshed system | one that sacrifices the autonomy of its members in order to experience a great deal of cohesion |
| disengaged system | promotes independence at the risk of not developing a sense of family loyalty |
| life cycle stages | 1. young married couples w/o children 2. families with preschoolers 3. families with school-age children 4. families with adolescents 5. launching families-sending young adults into the world 6. empty nest-life after children 7. retirement years |
| crisis stages | 1. shock resulting in numbness or disbelief, denial 2. recoil stage resulting in anger, confusion, blaming, guitar, and bargaining 3. depression 4. reorganization resulting in acceptance and recovery |
| goldly family | a little commonwealth because every facet of socila life was centered in family activity |
| democratic family | modal family is less formal, less hierarchicial, and more tender |
| companionate family | virtues of spouses as friends and lovers and parents and children as pals |
| family themes | recurring attitudes, beliefs, or outlooks on life shared by the entire family |
| family identity | when family themes are prominent and the family unit is cohesive |
| traditional couples | highly interdependent, share conventional views of marriage and family life, and engage, in conflict on a fairly regular basis |
| separate couples | autonomous-spouses give each other more room, they aren't as expressive, do not feel as strongly about views as traditionals |
| independent couples | subscribe to more nonconventional values and views about relationships |
| separate/traditional couples | most distinct of couples; spouses have most conventional sex roles of all types, self-disclosure is very little, ask fewer questions, and yet score consistently high on all ratings of martial satisfaction |
| support messages | praising, approving, encouraging, and showing affection are linked to higher levels of self-esteem in children and greater conformity to authority |
| control messages | power assertion, love withdrawl, and induction |
| power assertion | parent's use of physical coercion, unexplained demands, restricted privileges |
| love withdrawl | strategy of threatening negative consequences if the child fails to comply |
| induction | strategy of reasoning with a child about his or her behavior in an effort to help child understand why they should follow certain rules or why a given behavior is wrong or hurtful |
| parental mediation | a parent viewing television with the child, discussing specific programs before or after they are seen, and talking about TV in general |
| comforting | trying to alleviate, moderate, or salve the distressed emotional state of another person |
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