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STUDY GUIDE #3

SFL 160 Study Guide for Quiz #3

 Know the terms from the Symbolic Interaction Theory: symbols, interactions, roles, subjective interpretation -

Symbols: meanings that develop based on shared understandings develop through interactions

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Interactions: we learn meaning through communication both verbally and nonverbally with each other. Interaction creates meaning: meaning is not pre-existing

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Roles: in our interactions we develop perceptions of what our duties, and responsibilities are in a system. We develop a self-concept interactions – “the looking glass self”

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Subjective interpretation: each person subjectively interprets a situation based on their experience. Different people will interpret an interaction in different ways

 Know the downsides of imaginative rehearsing including ANTS A: automatic N: negative T: thoughts  Know what families need to develop a consensus on (Symbolic Interaction Theory) -

Establishing a patter of separateness and connectedness

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Evolving modes of interaction into central themes or goals

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Establishing boundaries from the family’s world of experience

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Dealing with significant biosocial issues of family life

 Know the main themes of Family Life Course Theory: historical time and place, timing in lives, linked lives, human agency

STUDY GUIDE #3

SFL 160

o Historical time/place: The life course of individuals is embedded in and shaped by the historical times and places they experience over their life time o Timing in lives: the development impact of a succession of life transitions or events is contingent on when they occur in a person’s life o Linked lives: lives are lived interdependently and social and historical influences are experienced through these shares relationships o Human agency: individuals construct their own life course through the choices and actions they take within the opportunities and constraints of history and social circumstances  Know the basic terms from Family Life Course Theory: transition, life event, developmental trajectory, developmental turning point o Transition: a change in roles and statuses that represents a marked change from prior roles and statuses (single >> married >> children) o Life event: a significant occurrence involving a relatively abrupt change that may produce significant and long-lasting effects (divorce, as well as more normative transitions) o Developmental trajectory: long-term pattern of transitions across the family life course (marriage >> young children >> adolescent >> empty nesters, etc.) o Developmental turning point: life even that produces a lasting shift in the expected life course trajectory o Cohort: group of persons who were born at the same historical time and who experience particular social changes within a given culture in the same sequences and at the same age.

STUDY GUIDE #3

SFL 160

 Know what Elder (the reading) says about choices

 Be familiar with the differences between the meaning of multiphasic processes, cumulation of disadvantages, and developmental turning points.

o Multiphasic processes: transitions are not just one choice point, but frequently a succession of choice points Example: Motherhood in adolescence: premarital sex, sex without contraceptives, pregnancy, decision to have a child outside of marriage, decision not to marry after birth. o Cumulation of disadvantages: disadvantages can accumulate based on choice points, transitions, or turning points. Bur whether they cumulate depends on responses to circumstances. o Developmental turning points: choices interaction with opportunities that change the trajectory of a life course (low-income young men joining military, mission service)...