PSYC 426 Athabasca University |
Questions and answers | Latest
version 2024/2025
1. Organizational
2. Cultural
3. Social Class
4. Cohort
5. Family Life Course - ANSWER -Bernarde's 5 types of diversity in families
Organizational Diversity - ANSWER -How labour is divided
Cultural Diversity - ANSWER -Differences in beliefs and behaviours between families or individual
members
Social Class Diversity - ANSWER -Range in social status between families
Cohort Diversity - ANSWER -Generational differences
Family Life Course Diversity - ANSWER -Stages of a family life course
Particular Ideology - ANSWER -Ideas of a possible opponent, open to skepticism
1. Particular
2. Total - ANSWER -Mannheim's Two Levels of Ideology
Total Ideology - ANSWER -The Zeitgeist
1. Sustains Individualism
2. Sustains Naturalistic Analysis of Behaviour
3. Sustains Differentiation in Society
4. Idolizes and Mystifies the Family - ANSWER -4 Ways Family Ideology Maintains SOCIETY
Family Pathways - ANSWER -A concept of family that takes into account the different ways one can
be a part of a family
Family Citizenship - ANSWER -An alternate concept of family that considers the rights and duties of
individual members and how they relate to each other
Family Associations - ANSWER -The primary and secondary social networks that address the needs of
the family
Theorem of Sociological Principle - ANSWER -Reject the concept of "The Family" and recognize the
complexity of the family
, Theorem of Sociological Principle - ANSWER -Study the unity of everyday experience and recognize
the complexity of the family
Theorem of Social Responsibility - ANSWER -Bad family sociology can be harmful, and therefore we
need to develop a new, better family studies to benefit society
Family - ANSWER -A group of two or more people related by birth, marriage, adoption, or co-
residence. One person is the householder.
1. Family may live outside the residence
2. Family membership is asymmetrical
3. Family members can be chosen. Blood family can be rejected - ANSWER -3 Key Features of the
Family
1. Availability for assistance
2. Emotional bond
3. Extent of Communication - ANSWER -3 Additional Features of Family
1. Physical and Social Settings
2. Culturally regulated customs of child care
3. Psychology of caretakers - ANSWER -3 Aspects of the Developmental Niche
Parental Ethnotheory - ANSWER -The cultural belief system of the parent guiding their practices
Microsystem - ANSWER -Direct factors impacting development
Family, school, peers
1. Microsystem
2. Mesosystem
3. Exosystem
4. Macrosystem
5. Chronosystem - ANSWER -5 Levels of Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems
Mesosystem - ANSWER -relations between microsystems or connections between contexts
Exosystem - ANSWER -Impact of the larger community setting on development
Macrosystem - ANSWER -Cultural contexts of development
Chronosystem - ANSWER -Impact of the time period on development
1. Process
2. Person
3. Time
Questions and answers | Latest
version 2024/2025
1. Organizational
2. Cultural
3. Social Class
4. Cohort
5. Family Life Course - ANSWER -Bernarde's 5 types of diversity in families
Organizational Diversity - ANSWER -How labour is divided
Cultural Diversity - ANSWER -Differences in beliefs and behaviours between families or individual
members
Social Class Diversity - ANSWER -Range in social status between families
Cohort Diversity - ANSWER -Generational differences
Family Life Course Diversity - ANSWER -Stages of a family life course
Particular Ideology - ANSWER -Ideas of a possible opponent, open to skepticism
1. Particular
2. Total - ANSWER -Mannheim's Two Levels of Ideology
Total Ideology - ANSWER -The Zeitgeist
1. Sustains Individualism
2. Sustains Naturalistic Analysis of Behaviour
3. Sustains Differentiation in Society
4. Idolizes and Mystifies the Family - ANSWER -4 Ways Family Ideology Maintains SOCIETY
Family Pathways - ANSWER -A concept of family that takes into account the different ways one can
be a part of a family
Family Citizenship - ANSWER -An alternate concept of family that considers the rights and duties of
individual members and how they relate to each other
Family Associations - ANSWER -The primary and secondary social networks that address the needs of
the family
Theorem of Sociological Principle - ANSWER -Reject the concept of "The Family" and recognize the
complexity of the family
, Theorem of Sociological Principle - ANSWER -Study the unity of everyday experience and recognize
the complexity of the family
Theorem of Social Responsibility - ANSWER -Bad family sociology can be harmful, and therefore we
need to develop a new, better family studies to benefit society
Family - ANSWER -A group of two or more people related by birth, marriage, adoption, or co-
residence. One person is the householder.
1. Family may live outside the residence
2. Family membership is asymmetrical
3. Family members can be chosen. Blood family can be rejected - ANSWER -3 Key Features of the
Family
1. Availability for assistance
2. Emotional bond
3. Extent of Communication - ANSWER -3 Additional Features of Family
1. Physical and Social Settings
2. Culturally regulated customs of child care
3. Psychology of caretakers - ANSWER -3 Aspects of the Developmental Niche
Parental Ethnotheory - ANSWER -The cultural belief system of the parent guiding their practices
Microsystem - ANSWER -Direct factors impacting development
Family, school, peers
1. Microsystem
2. Mesosystem
3. Exosystem
4. Macrosystem
5. Chronosystem - ANSWER -5 Levels of Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems
Mesosystem - ANSWER -relations between microsystems or connections between contexts
Exosystem - ANSWER -Impact of the larger community setting on development
Macrosystem - ANSWER -Cultural contexts of development
Chronosystem - ANSWER -Impact of the time period on development
1. Process
2. Person
3. Time
