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Making Choices

Making Choices. The Freedom and Pressures of Choosing. NORMS Rules and expectations by which a culture guides the behavior of its members. Social Influences & Personal Choice. 1. It’s always easier to make the common choice 2. Social factors can expand people’s options

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Making Choices

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  1. Making Choices The Freedom and Pressures of Choosing

  2. NORMSRules and expectations by which a culture guides the behavior of its members

  3. Social Influences & Personal Choice 1. It’s always easier to make the common choice 2. Social factors can expand people’s options 3. Social factors can limit people’s options

  4. Five Social Factors that can Influence Individuals’ Choices 1. HISTORICAL EVENTS 2. SOCIAL CLASS 3. RACE and ETHNICITY 4. AGE EXPECTATIONS 5. SOCIAL GROUP MEMBERSHIP

  5. MARRIAGE NETWORKS(Bott) Patterns by which husbands and wives organize their social lives • Joint Marriage Networks • Segregated Networks

  6. Racial-Ethnic Groups People who share a common identity and think of themselves as different from others by virtue of common ancestry, culture, and sometimes physical features

  7. ADULT LIFE COURSE (Sheehy) 1. Try-out-20’s 2. Turbulent 30’s 3. Flourishing 40’s 4. Middle-Essence (mid-life) 45-50’s 5. Flaming 50’s 6. Anything Goes 70’s

  8. FAMILY DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVE (Pp. 27-29) Family itself as the unit of analysis

  9. Normative Order

  10. Normative Order Hypothesis (Jackson, 2004)

  11. THE FAMILY LIFE CYCLE Married Couple 2. Childbearing 3. Preschool 4. School 5. Teenage 6. Launching 7. Middle-age Parent 8. Aging Family Members

  12. ADULT LIFE COURSE (Sheehy) 1. Try-out-20’s 2. Turbulent 30’s 3. Flourishing 40’s 4. Middle-Essence (mid-life) 45-50’s 5. Flaming 50’s 6. Anything Goes 70’s

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