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Family Theory & Dynamics Exam 1 Questions and Answers 100% Pass Positivism - Things that just are. Cause and effect. Includes Exchange Theory, and Family Development Systems Interpretive - Opposite of Positivism. It depends. Includes Symbolic Theory, Structural Functionalism Theory, Systems Th...

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Family Theory & Dynamics Exam 1
Questions and Answers 100% Pass

Positivism - ✔✔Things that just are. Cause and effect. Includes Exchange Theory, and Family

Development Systems


Interpretive - ✔✔Opposite of Positivism. It depends. Includes Symbolic Theory, Structural Functionalism

Theory, Systems Theory


Conflict/Critical - ✔✔Two groups-haves and have nots. Feminist Theory and Conflict Theory


Theory - ✔✔A set of interrelated propositions plus assumptions and definitions.


Theory Cnstruction - ✔✔A procedure used to invent a theory, sometimes to turn a set of findings into a

smaller set of propositions. The researcher looks for common content and indications of more general

constructs in a set of varied research findings.


Generalizations - ✔✔A statement of relations between variables.


deductive reasoning - ✔✔goes from general to specific, from top to bottom


-IE: all men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore, Socrates is mortal.


inductive reasoning - ✔✔Specific to general."The coin I pulled from the bag is a penny. ... Therefore, all

the coins in the bag are pennies."


confict theory - ✔✔conflict over control of scarce resources ie. Power, money,




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Exchange theory - ✔✔theory that holds that people are motivated by self-interests in their interactions

with other people


Feminist Theory - ✔✔- a woman's experience is central to our understanding of families, and that there is

value in viewing a family through a woman's perspective.


structural functional theory - ✔✔examines how a family's interdependent parts work together to ensure

its survival. There are needs that must be met and patterns emerge to meet those needs


Symbolic Interactionism - ✔✔people will react to something according to the meaning that that thing has

for them. That meaning is influenced society and culture and our interactions with others.


3 parts of a theory - ✔✔assumptions, concepts, propositions


assumptions - ✔✔a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof.


concepts - ✔✔The building blocks—the primary elements—of a theory


propositions - ✔✔a unit of meaning that is made up of concepts and expresses a single idea. statement

showing the relationship between concepts


Hypothesis - ✔✔A statement of relations between variables. A hypothesis is a prediction that a particular

relation will be found.)


How theories help us - ✔✔1 Increase knowledge


2 Focuses our thinking


3 Predict and explain


4 Helps us solve problems so we know when to intervene


5 Helps us have precision


6 Interpret



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