Marriage And The Family

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Objectivity

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Suspend the beliefs biases or prejudices we have about a subject until we understand what is being said

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Fallacies

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Error in reasoning

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Egocentric fallacy

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Mistaken belief that everyone has the same experiences and values that we have and therefore should think think as we do

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Ethnocentric fallacy

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belief that our ethnic group, nation, or culture is innately superior to others

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Scientific method

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Well established procedures used to collect and analyze information about family experiences

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Theories

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Sets of general principles or concepts used to explain a phenomenon and make predictions that may be tested and verified experimentally

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Concepts

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abstract ideas that we use to represent the reality in which we are interested

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Conceptualization

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The specification and definition of concepts used by the researcher

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Operationalization

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the identification and or development of research strategies to observe or measure concepts

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Deductive research

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research in which concepts are turned into variables

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intervening variable

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Affected by the independent variable, race and in turn affecting the dependent variable, life expectancy.

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Inductive research

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Not hypothesis testing research

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Macro level theories

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focus on the family as a social institution

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Social institution

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the organized patter of statuses and structures, roles and rules by which a society attempts to meet certain of its most basic needs.

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Family ecology theory

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how families are influenced by and in turn influence the wider enviornment

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Environmental influences

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influences that come from an outside environment

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Structural functionalism theory

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explains how society works how families work and how families relate to the larger society and to their own members

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subsystems

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different structures that perform functions for its survival

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Conflict Theory

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life involves discord and competition

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Gender

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the social aspects of being female or male

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Symbolic interaction theory

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looks at how people interact with one anothers

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Social roles

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Established patterns of behavior that exist independently of a person such as the role of wife or husband

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social exchange theory

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measure of our actions and relationships on a cost benefit bases seeking to maximize rewards and minimize cost

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Family developments theory

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The only one exclusivity directed at families. Emphasizes the patterned changes that occur in families through stages and across time.

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normative age graded influences

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biological or social influences that are clearly correlated with age

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Normative history graded influences

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come from historical facts that are common to a particulate generation such as the political and economic influence

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Family systems theory

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Combines two of the previous sociological theories structural functionalism and symbolic

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Quantitative research

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deals with large quantities of informations that is analyzed and presented statistically

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qualitative research

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concerned with a detailed understanding of the object of study

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secondary data analysis

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involves reanalyzing data orginally collected for another purpose