COMM 315- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 39 pages long!)
11 Oct 2017
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Communication family: family relies on communication. My kids call katie aunt katie : definitions influence what is studies and how. Approach the family as a system: influenced by environment, some cultures value marriage and it is actually a legal relationship. Characteristics of a system: structures: internal relations, functions: what the sustem does for itself (internal) and rthe environment (external, evolution. Evolution and change in the family: dynamics of family change, family life cycle, two people come together, have children, children get married, have grandchildren, not always how it turns out. One or more parent dies when child is young: stressful contact with outside sources, school, workplace, neighbors, co-workers. Have to change schools: illness or death (of parent or child, divorce or separation, redefine or renegotiated relationship between remaining parent and children. Oldest child takes on role that one parent left.
