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Exploring Family Dynamics: Myths, Realities, and Theoretical Perspectives

Delve into the complexities of family dynamics by examining personal preconceptions, societal myths, and theoretical perspectives. Explore how experiences, media portrayals, and cultural norms shape our views on relationships, marriage, and family structures. Challenge common myths about marriage rates, childless couples, and gender roles in households. Uncover the fundamental questions in social science and how they relate to human behavior in family studies. Familiarize yourself with key terms such as disciplines, macro and micro studies, anthropology, ethnocentrism, sociology, and psychology to deepen your understanding of theoretical perspectives in family dynamics research.

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Exploring Family Dynamics: Myths, Realities, and Theoretical Perspectives

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  1. Unit One – All in the Family Chapter Two – Approaches to Studying Individuals & Families

  2. Preconceptions • Experiences that you have in your own families, the opinionsyou have formed from observing & discussing your friend’s families, and the families you have seen portrayed in the media will affect the perceptionsyou have of relationships, marriage and families.

  3. What are your preconceptions? • Myth or Fact? Fewer people are getting married today because of the high divorce rate. • Myth or Fact? The nuclear family is dying because more and more couples are choosing not to have children. • Myth or Fact? Men and women have set “duties” or roles within the home once they get married.

  4. Theoretical Perspectives Four basic questions in Social Science: • What happens? • How does it happen? • Why does it happen? • How can people change what happens? • All linked to Human Behaviour

  5. Family Studies Flow Chart

  6. Key Terms in Theoretical Perspectives • Disciplines: specific branches of learning (ex. Math, physics, psychology) • Theory: a framework for organizing & explaining observable evidence. Without facts, a theory is just a speculation or a guess. • Macro: large scale study of society • Micro: small scale study of individual cases

  7. Key Terms in Theoretical Perspectives Cont’d… • Anthropology: study of culture • Ethnocentrism: the tendency to evaluate behaviour from the point of view of your own culture • Sociology: study of behaviour of individuals in groups, families and society • Psychology: study ofbehaviour based on mental process

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