PSY 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Job Performance, Job Satisfaction, Parenting Styles
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The changing functions of the family: in our time has mainly emotional or affective functions: to provide love, nurturance, and affection. The process by which children acquitter attitudes, beliefs, behaviours, and skill deemed appropriate in a given culture. Levine (1974): families in every society have same three basic goals. Ake sure they (children) survive to adulthood. Give them skills and attitudes needed to support themselves. Encourage the other social values (achievement, creativity) Family systems approach: to understand family functioning one must understand how each relationship within the family in uences the family as a whole. The family system is composed of a variety of subsystems. For example, the subsystems in a family consisting of two parents and an adolescents would be: mother and adolescent, father and adolescent, mother and father. Each subsystem in uences every other subsystem in the family.