PSYC21H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Reciprocal Liking, Immanence, Age 12
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Family a social unit in which adult spouses or partners and their children share economic, social, and emotional rights and responsibilities and a sense of commitment and identification with each other. Families vary in their structure, they are children"s earliest and most sustained of social contact. Families are also systems for socialization family members channel children"s impulses into socially accepted outlets and teach children the skills and rules they need to function in society. Family system is composed of a number of subsystems: mother and father, mother and chid. Father and child: mother father, and child, and subsystems involving siblings. Socialization takes place within each of these subsystems. Family members influence each other directly and indirectly. Direct effects are obvious: spouses effect each other by praising or criticising; parents affect their children by hugging or spanking; children affect their parents by clinging or talking back. Negative patterns of interaction intensify and solidify in families with an aggressive child.
