FMLY 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Exchange Theory, Social Constructionism, Main Source

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Family Social Sciences
• Course: FMLY 1000
• Professor: Cheryl V.Fraehlich

Document Summary

Lecture 2: knowing about families: theory and research. A set of interrelated proposition/ suggestion that serves as a system of logical explanation for a phenomenon. Generalizations abt the way social behavior occurs. Understand theories help to shape government policy, agency regulations, methods of therapy and other ways society relates to families. Note: fmly researchers may have different goal from structural functional researchers. Highly regard snaf in which male breadwinner and female homemaker. Anything far away from that is abnormal or defective in some way. May be divided by age, interest, sex, . Note: system: fmly subsystem: grandma, husband, wife, children, fam. members are interdependent what happens to one impacts all. The whole is greater than the sums of its parts . Looks at the rela. between fmly and society. Internal influences: changes occur by an ind. matures. Humans make choices based on perceived rewards x costs: are rationale beings trying to minimize costs and maximize the rewards.