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What is the constitutive nature of communication in families? - correct answer ✔✔Families
define themselves, for themselves, through their interactions.
"Families are constructed by the very communication processes one seeks to study as being
within a family"
Family of origin - correct answer ✔✔intentional families may be formed when the family of
origin are estranged, does not share values, or does not meet needs, or when there s a death in
the family that leave a void to be filled.
In this case people will create family relationships as substitute or supplemental
3 Definitions of Family
Definition 1 - correct answer ✔✔Role Lens - relationships are familiar to the extent that
relational partners feel and act like family; this establishes social behavior and emotion as the
defining characteristics.
3 Definitions of Family
Definition 2 - correct answer ✔✔Sociological Lens - Relies on the enactment of law and
regulations, defining family relationships as those formally sanctioned by law.
3 Definitions of Family
Definition 3 - correct answer ✔✔Biogenetic Lens - depends on two criteria's: the extent to
which the relationship is directly reproductive, as least potentially, and whether or not that
humans have evolved motivation to be conscious of their levels of genetic relatedness with
others.
,Discourse dependent families. Internal/ External Boundary Management - correct answer
✔✔Discourse Dependent Families: The more a family member relies on communication
strategies to manage their family boundaries. They need to do this with those outside of the
family, and at a certain time, with those inside the family.
External Boundary Management: involves using communication strategies to reveal or conceal
information about the family to outsiders.
Internal Boundary Management: refers to the use of communication strategies to create
maintain members' internal sense of we-ness or being a family.
Diverse family forms:
(8 of them) - correct answer ✔✔1.Two parent biological families: consists of parents and the
children who result in the union of these parents. Thus full blood ties characterize this family;
the majority of parents are married but increasingly many are cohabiters.
2.Committed partners: include adult pairs (Heterosexual or homosexual) who cannot choose
not to marry or parent who consider each other to be family.
3.Single parent family: Consists of one parent and one or more children
4.Stepfamily or blended family: Refers to families formed through merging existing family units.
, 5.Adoption (another kind of blended family)- A family that is connected to another family, the
birth family, and often to different cultures and to different ethnic and national groups as well.
6.Foster Families: Serve children who cannot remain living with their biological relatives at a
given period of time because the adult parental figures is incapable of safe and appropriate
parenting.
7.Extended or intergenerational family: Traditionally refers to that group of relatives living
within a nearby geographic area.
8.Intentional family: involves a pair or a group of people, all or most of whom are unrelated
biologically or legally, who share a commitment to each other, may live together, and consider
themselves to be a family.
Internal boundary management - correct answer ✔✔refers to the use of communication
strategies to create maintain members internal sense if we-ness or being a family
external boundary management - correct answer ✔✔involves using communication strategies
to reveal or conceal information about the family to outsiders
Current family trends: - correct answer ✔✔•The profile of marriage continues to change:
Americans are less likely to marry than in previous decades and most couples lives together
before marrying for the first time. These couple are also marrying later. Divorce rate is also
stabilizing (continues to drop)
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What is the constitutive nature of communication in families? - correct answer ✔✔Families
define themselves, for themselves, through their interactions.
"Families are constructed by the very communication processes one seeks to study as being
within a family"
Family of origin - correct answer ✔✔intentional families may be formed when the family of
origin are estranged, does not share values, or does not meet needs, or when there s a death in
the family that leave a void to be filled.
In this case people will create family relationships as substitute or supplemental
3 Definitions of Family
Definition 1 - correct answer ✔✔Role Lens - relationships are familiar to the extent that
relational partners feel and act like family; this establishes social behavior and emotion as the
defining characteristics.
3 Definitions of Family
Definition 2 - correct answer ✔✔Sociological Lens - Relies on the enactment of law and
regulations, defining family relationships as those formally sanctioned by law.
3 Definitions of Family
Definition 3 - correct answer ✔✔Biogenetic Lens - depends on two criteria's: the extent to
which the relationship is directly reproductive, as least potentially, and whether or not that
humans have evolved motivation to be conscious of their levels of genetic relatedness with
others.
,Discourse dependent families. Internal/ External Boundary Management - correct answer
✔✔Discourse Dependent Families: The more a family member relies on communication
strategies to manage their family boundaries. They need to do this with those outside of the
family, and at a certain time, with those inside the family.
External Boundary Management: involves using communication strategies to reveal or conceal
information about the family to outsiders.
Internal Boundary Management: refers to the use of communication strategies to create
maintain members' internal sense of we-ness or being a family.
Diverse family forms:
(8 of them) - correct answer ✔✔1.Two parent biological families: consists of parents and the
children who result in the union of these parents. Thus full blood ties characterize this family;
the majority of parents are married but increasingly many are cohabiters.
2.Committed partners: include adult pairs (Heterosexual or homosexual) who cannot choose
not to marry or parent who consider each other to be family.
3.Single parent family: Consists of one parent and one or more children
4.Stepfamily or blended family: Refers to families formed through merging existing family units.
, 5.Adoption (another kind of blended family)- A family that is connected to another family, the
birth family, and often to different cultures and to different ethnic and national groups as well.
6.Foster Families: Serve children who cannot remain living with their biological relatives at a
given period of time because the adult parental figures is incapable of safe and appropriate
parenting.
7.Extended or intergenerational family: Traditionally refers to that group of relatives living
within a nearby geographic area.
8.Intentional family: involves a pair or a group of people, all or most of whom are unrelated
biologically or legally, who share a commitment to each other, may live together, and consider
themselves to be a family.
Internal boundary management - correct answer ✔✔refers to the use of communication
strategies to create maintain members internal sense if we-ness or being a family
external boundary management - correct answer ✔✔involves using communication strategies
to reveal or conceal information about the family to outsiders
Current family trends: - correct answer ✔✔•The profile of marriage continues to change:
Americans are less likely to marry than in previous decades and most couples lives together
before marrying for the first time. These couple are also marrying later. Divorce rate is also
stabilizing (continues to drop)
