PSYC 215 Midterm: Family Study Guide

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Murdock"s definition of family: murdock defines family as a social group characterized by a common residence, economic cooperation and reproduction. That is, a heterosexual couple would want to have children and expand their family unit. Reiss" definition of family: reiss defines family as a small kinship structured groups with the key function of nutruant socialization of the newborn . With reiss" definition of family, there is much emphasis on having children with a focus on raising and nurturing them based on biological ties. This definition however, does exclude surrogate mothers and donor fathers. It includes survey research which is the most common technique is sociological family research. One flaw in this type of research is that people may not be honest when it comes to personal questions being asked: useful when studying a population"s attitude and opinions on a certain topic. Qualitative relies mostly on interpretive and observational techniques.

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