PSY310H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Job Satisfaction, Survival Sex, Deductive Reasoning
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These subsystems are also related to each other because they influence each other. More than the sum of its part. More than the individual relationships that make it up. Not only stability, but there is also change within the system. However, things can happen that causes disequilibrium. Balance can be upset and there"s a readjustment process that takes place. Back then, adolescents experience deaths of one parent and then remarriages. With development of cities, where family lived has changed. Changes in family composition, not just traditional mother and father and children, Families are more mobile and can move around more. Smallest in america than they have ever been. Society changed so that now it"s more urban compared to rural farming in the past. Living longer nowadays, more adolescents are experiencing death of their parents later in age. There are common-laws with biological children, matriachal (woman breadwinner) or same sex parents, or blended family (step family), and single parent families.
