FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Margaret Mead, Number 1 Single, Natural Disaster
3 May 2016
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More than half of young adults still live at home. Can be considered normal in western world. Financial support and guidance has a much larger influence on youth success now. Social dynamics: change can be measured across points in time. Examines how a family unit changes (ex. After a baby arrives vs. 10 year later) And change are central to developing a dynamic theory. Social norms about family and how family unit functions (ex. Parent shares with child: does not look at unique events or changes. Birth, graduation, wedding, death: actual date is not important because the event is what contains the information about our lives, most life events are considered normative. Friday night of drinking changes once you have a child: 3 qualities- beginning, exit, during stage where life is markedly different than before. Stage transitions: every person and organization experiences transitions, many contain intense adjustment which leads to high stress (ex.
