Exam 2: Exploring Relationships and Families

The most significant disadvantage of the "naturalistic observation" research method is that

Today's family ecologists stress the interdependence of all the world's families, not only with one another but also with our fragile __________ environment.

The basic premise of the exchange perspective is that people use their resources to bargain and secure advantages in relationships.

How does "laboratory observation" differ from "naturalistic observation"? Give an example of each.

__________ perspectives are ways of viewing reality.

The __________ perspective focuses on how the family influences and is influenced by the environments that surround it.

A photograph in the text depicts a mother and her children waiting patiently for medical attention in a neighborhood clinic. Which group of scholars would be inclined to explore the mother's body language and speculate on what the child is saying nonverbally to the mother?

The traditional family sequence of marriage, parenthood, grandparenthood, and widowhood is discussed in which of the following perspectives?

A politician argues: "The family must be saved somehow or society will suffer. It is the family, after all, that is primarily responsible for responsible childrearing, for the care of elderly parents, and for being the basic economic anchor of society." This view is consistent with the structure-functional perspective.

WAndre is a family therapist who is interested in how husbands cope when they are the victims of physical abuse suffered at the hands of their wives. He makes an intensive study of the five husbands who are currently his clients for therapy sessions because they suffer physical abuse from this source. Andre is using which type of research method?

What marks the end of the family life cycle, according to the text?

A strength of the __________ perspective is that it sensitizes us to significant political-economic and social-cultural issues that may not be addressed in other theories.

Children who live in poor neighborhoods are at less risk for negative social, educational, economic, and health outcomes.

According to the interaction-constructionist theoretical perspective, ______________ is how family members adapt culturally understood roles to their own situations and preferences.

A photograph in the text depicts a family waiting patiently for medical attention in a neighborhood clinic. Which group of scholars might remark on the quality of the facilities or speculate about the home that these people live in?

The family development perspective emphasizes the individual family as the unit of analysis and examines the orderly stages through which families are seen to move.

Though there is no "typical" American family today, advocates supporting the __________ perspective frequently argue that the heterosexual nuclear family is the norm, while their opponents refuse to view the nuclear family as normal, natural, or best.

Survey questions are always closed-ended.

The conflict perspective is the opposite of the___________; it assumes that not all family behaviors and practices contribute to family well-being.

"Equilibrium" is an important concept in which of the following perspectives?