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rules - correct answer ✔✔-can be formal or informal
-come from accepted ways of doing things that we adopt from our culture, some are created as family
life emerges, some are developed in response to specific events in everyday life as we raise children and
become involved in other complicated family activities
social norms - correct answer ✔✔-beliefs that exist in a culture that prescribe certain behaviors and
proscribe others, deal with shoulds and should nots that get communicated to us by the groups of
people are around each day
-What utensil to use, who should be chosen as sexual partner
mores - correct answer ✔✔-norms dealing with behaviors considered especially important, focus on
ideal
-Customs/conventions essential to maintenance of community life
-Choice and timing of dating behavior
folkways - correct answer ✔✔-behaviors that are preferred but more or less optional, focus on behaviors
that emanate from mores
-Fathers feeling pressure to take their sons fishing "folks do things here"
-Specific behavioral expectations that might pressure us to dress our children in a certain way or speak to
our spouses in a certain way
rule sequence - correct answer ✔✔patterns of interactive behavior that seem much like a play
-She says x, dad says y, billy says y not, she says x, pattern
laws - correct answer ✔✔tell us it is not acceptable to discipline children with abusive strategies
, how do rules emerge - correct answer ✔✔-Family of origin
-Culture
-Negotiated by family members
-Through a series of interaction
-Trial and error
-Conflict and resolution
paradigm - correct answer ✔✔-collected worldview held by a community or specified group of
individuals
-Only exists when group members buy into or share certain ideals, beliefs, and views
distance regulation - correct answer ✔✔-group has learned how to manage a pattern of separateness
and connectedness
-Tell us how/when we should be close and when we should be separate
-Help us know how to disengage when there is too much closeness
rules of authority - correct answer ✔✔-mom might be in charge of cheering people up, older
grandparent in house might have to relieve pressure when an argument is too tense, dad might be in
charge of dealing with emergencies
-Need to be reassessed after death or divorce
rules of implementation - correct answer ✔✔-implementing other rules/expectations
-Family will have rules about a topic (schoolwork) but also need rules to designate how they go about
getting the work done
-Getting good grades: need rules about grade performance, studying, allocating group resources
rule exceptions - correct answer ✔✔-allow system to deal with unexpected things and regulate
necessary behavior when a rule cannot be followed
-Jill is very athletic but also needs good grades-parents will let her choose where to put the emphasis of
her time