Exam 2: Exploring Relationships and Families

Science can be defined as a logical system that bases knowledge on systematic observations.

Family ecologists focus on current interactions within the family, not on historical, political or socioeconomic conditions.

Theoretical perspectives or theories can increase our __________ families and family life.

In the contemporary version of evolutionary theory, it is the survival of one's __________ into future generations that is important.

When using the __________ research method, a researcher lives with a family, spends extensive time with them, and carefully records their activities, conversations, gestures, and everyday behaviors.

The structure-functional theoretical perspective views the family as performing at least three important functions. Which of the following is NOT one of these?

How family members use and bargain human and material resources to secure advantage in a relationship is the subject of __________ theory.

The __________ perspective argues that humans' evolutionary biology affects much of human behavior and, more specifically, many family-related behaviors.

The __________ perspective on the family is characterized by concepts linking psychosocial factors to physiology, genetics, and evolution

A recent study among immigrants found that relationships "based not on blood or marriage but rather on religious rituals or close friendship ties" can serve as a functional alternative to the nuclear family. According to the text, what are these relationships called?

Theoretical perspectives are ways of

Compare and contrast the differences in using either a longitudinal study to collect data, or a basic survey technique.

A photograph in the text depicts a mother and her children waiting patiently for medical attention in a neighborhood clinic. Which group of scholars might point out that, typically, it is mothers and not fathers who are primarily responsible for their children's health-and ask why?

Suppose that a law states: "The husband is the head of the household. As such, he will establish a place and a mode of living and the wife must conform thereto. The husband must support his wife and minor children out of his labor. The wife must assist him insofar as she is able." This hypothetical law is consistent with the focus of which theoretical perspective?

In __________________(also called "participant observation" or "field research," the researcher spends extensive time with respondents and carefully records their activities, conversations, gestures, and other aspects of everyday life

Random assignment of research participants to Group 1, Group 2, and Group 3 would suggest that the investigators are using which technique?