Comm 414 Exam 1 questions with
complete solutions A+
The constitutive nature of comm in families - correct answer ✔✔- Families define themselves,
for themselves, through their interactions.
- Families are constructed by the very comm processes one seeks to study as being within a
family. (how they use comm to define themselves)
- challenges the conception of one dominant form of fam
Family-of-origin-definition - correct answer ✔✔Refers to the significant caretakers and siblings
that a person grows up with, or the first social group a person belongs to, which is often a
person's biological family or an adoptive family. Intentional families may create if family of origin
is estranged.
3 definitions of family (Role Lens) #1 - correct answer ✔✔relationships are familial to the extent
that relational partners feel and act like a family and establishes social behavior and emotion as
the defining characteristics.
3 definitions of family (Soiciolegal lens) #2 - correct answer ✔✔relies on the enactment of laws
abs regulations, defining family as those formally sanctioned by law.
3 definitions of family (biogenetic lens) #3 - correct answer ✔✔The extent to which the
relationship is directly reproductive, at least potentially, and whether or not the relational
partners share genetic material.
Discourse dependent families - correct answer ✔✔Members rely on communication strategies
to manage their family boundaries with those inside and outside the family.
, External boundary management - correct answer ✔✔involves using communication strategies
to reveal or conceal information about the family to outsiders
Internal boundary management - correct answer ✔✔the use of comm strategies to create
maintain members' internal sense of we-ness or being a family
Diverse family forms - correct answer ✔✔- two parent biological family
- committed partners
- single parent family
- step family/blended family
- adoption
- foster families
- extended or inter generational family
- intentional family
Current family divorce - correct answer ✔✔Starting to stabilize. It is decreasing. Many
individuals who divorce tend to remarry within the next 4 years.
How and why children can experience parents differently - correct answer ✔✔Single parent
families, Adoptions (closed or open), Reproductive technologies
How a metaphor can symbolize a family - correct answer ✔✔it allows people to understand
certain elements within a family. Represent different family types.
The communication process - correct answer ✔✔As a symbolic, transnational process of
creating and sharing meaning. It means that comm is on going and constantly changing
meaning/adapting from past conversations and conversations to come.
complete solutions A+
The constitutive nature of comm in families - correct answer ✔✔- Families define themselves,
for themselves, through their interactions.
- Families are constructed by the very comm processes one seeks to study as being within a
family. (how they use comm to define themselves)
- challenges the conception of one dominant form of fam
Family-of-origin-definition - correct answer ✔✔Refers to the significant caretakers and siblings
that a person grows up with, or the first social group a person belongs to, which is often a
person's biological family or an adoptive family. Intentional families may create if family of origin
is estranged.
3 definitions of family (Role Lens) #1 - correct answer ✔✔relationships are familial to the extent
that relational partners feel and act like a family and establishes social behavior and emotion as
the defining characteristics.
3 definitions of family (Soiciolegal lens) #2 - correct answer ✔✔relies on the enactment of laws
abs regulations, defining family as those formally sanctioned by law.
3 definitions of family (biogenetic lens) #3 - correct answer ✔✔The extent to which the
relationship is directly reproductive, at least potentially, and whether or not the relational
partners share genetic material.
Discourse dependent families - correct answer ✔✔Members rely on communication strategies
to manage their family boundaries with those inside and outside the family.
, External boundary management - correct answer ✔✔involves using communication strategies
to reveal or conceal information about the family to outsiders
Internal boundary management - correct answer ✔✔the use of comm strategies to create
maintain members' internal sense of we-ness or being a family
Diverse family forms - correct answer ✔✔- two parent biological family
- committed partners
- single parent family
- step family/blended family
- adoption
- foster families
- extended or inter generational family
- intentional family
Current family divorce - correct answer ✔✔Starting to stabilize. It is decreasing. Many
individuals who divorce tend to remarry within the next 4 years.
How and why children can experience parents differently - correct answer ✔✔Single parent
families, Adoptions (closed or open), Reproductive technologies
How a metaphor can symbolize a family - correct answer ✔✔it allows people to understand
certain elements within a family. Represent different family types.
The communication process - correct answer ✔✔As a symbolic, transnational process of
creating and sharing meaning. It means that comm is on going and constantly changing
meaning/adapting from past conversations and conversations to come.
