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Family Violence - Test 1 Questions and Correct Answers (100% Pass)
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Family Violence
✓ abuse can be physical, psychological, emotional, as well as financial.
✓
✓ It is not limited to individuals whose relationships meet the legal
definitions of family.
Family Violence Theory
✓ States that families revolve around relationships based on not only
obligations, but also status and power
✓
✓ people with more resources tend to be abuse perpetrators (parents,
children of the elderly)
What is the most widely accepted theoretical framework among scholars of
family violence
✓ The family violence theory
Feminist Theory
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✓ assumes primarily that gender stratification is universal and produces
and unequal system which privileges men and hinders women
What does the feminist theory focus on
✓ ways that family violence is a gendered phenomenon
"gender based violence"
✓ calls attention to both the gender of the victim and the perpetrator
Race, class & gender theory
✓ built on the assumption that there are multiple systems of oppression
that collaboratively produce systems of stratification and therefore
inequality
✓
✓ every system of domination as a counter-system of privilege
Social structures
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✓ do not focus on the individual
✓
✓ focuses on how societal institutions (economy and religion) help shape
family violence
The Economy
✓ IPV increased substantially during the recession from 2007-2009
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✓ Money is linked to power i.e. men placing domestic expectations on
women in exchange for providing their financial need
Cultural Norms
✓ men should be the breadwinners
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✓ when men feel their masculinity is threatened, they respond with
violence
Religion
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