HDFS 2300 Term Test 1 questions well
answered to pass
Know the reasons why it is useful to study cultures from other families (5) - correct answer ✔✔-learn
about own assumptions/culture
-learn how to do things better
-increase understanding of other cultural groups
-interact more sensitively
-determine what is universal and what is culturally specific
Name and describe the 4 criteria that Ting-Toomey said should be met when using stereotypes - correct
answer ✔✔1. consciously held
2. descriptive (not "inner" qualities, behavior)
3. accurate
4. modifiable
Working definition of culture - correct answer ✔✔the habits of thinking, behaving, and feeling that are
shared by a group of people
Ethnicity - correct answer ✔✔the way people define themselves as part of a group through similarities in
common ancestry and cultural heritage
Murdock's universal family structure - correct answer ✔✔mom, dad, children
4 functions of family structures (Murdock) - correct answer ✔✔1. sexual (constrain to 1 relationship)
2. reproduction (produce new members of society)
3. socialization (show kids how to fit in)
4. economic (provide for family's physical needs)
, Israli Kibbutz - correct answer ✔✔-a commune
-a community that cooperates together
-group provides for the community
-need family for economic and socialization functions?
China-Mosuo - correct answer ✔✔-a "walking marriage"
-organized around the mother
-need family for sexual and reproduction functions?
Nuturant socialization - correct answer ✔✔1 or more adults with 1 or more children where adults
provide nuturant socialization to children
Family - correct answer ✔✔those who will always be there for you
Structural functionalism - correct answer ✔✔-family has structure that serves certain societal functions
-gender roles (man and woman with children)
Developmental niche (Super and Harkness) - correct answer ✔✔people seek out aspects of environment
that "fit" their personality
3 aspects of the developmental niche - correct answer ✔✔1. everyday context
2. culturally determined practices of child care
3. psychology and practices of caregiver
Bronfenbrenner's ecological system - correct answer ✔✔-macrosystem
-exosystem
-mesosystem
-microsystem
-chronosystem
answered to pass
Know the reasons why it is useful to study cultures from other families (5) - correct answer ✔✔-learn
about own assumptions/culture
-learn how to do things better
-increase understanding of other cultural groups
-interact more sensitively
-determine what is universal and what is culturally specific
Name and describe the 4 criteria that Ting-Toomey said should be met when using stereotypes - correct
answer ✔✔1. consciously held
2. descriptive (not "inner" qualities, behavior)
3. accurate
4. modifiable
Working definition of culture - correct answer ✔✔the habits of thinking, behaving, and feeling that are
shared by a group of people
Ethnicity - correct answer ✔✔the way people define themselves as part of a group through similarities in
common ancestry and cultural heritage
Murdock's universal family structure - correct answer ✔✔mom, dad, children
4 functions of family structures (Murdock) - correct answer ✔✔1. sexual (constrain to 1 relationship)
2. reproduction (produce new members of society)
3. socialization (show kids how to fit in)
4. economic (provide for family's physical needs)
, Israli Kibbutz - correct answer ✔✔-a commune
-a community that cooperates together
-group provides for the community
-need family for economic and socialization functions?
China-Mosuo - correct answer ✔✔-a "walking marriage"
-organized around the mother
-need family for sexual and reproduction functions?
Nuturant socialization - correct answer ✔✔1 or more adults with 1 or more children where adults
provide nuturant socialization to children
Family - correct answer ✔✔those who will always be there for you
Structural functionalism - correct answer ✔✔-family has structure that serves certain societal functions
-gender roles (man and woman with children)
Developmental niche (Super and Harkness) - correct answer ✔✔people seek out aspects of environment
that "fit" their personality
3 aspects of the developmental niche - correct answer ✔✔1. everyday context
2. culturally determined practices of child care
3. psychology and practices of caregiver
Bronfenbrenner's ecological system - correct answer ✔✔-macrosystem
-exosystem
-mesosystem
-microsystem
-chronosystem
