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30 Cards in this Set
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Objectivity
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Suspend the beliefs biases or prejudices we have about a subject until we understand what is being said
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Fallacies
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Error in reasoning
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Egocentric fallacy
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Mistaken belief that everyone has the same experiences and values that we have and therefore should think think as we do
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Ethnocentric fallacy
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belief that our ethnic group, nation, or culture is innately superior to others
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Scientific method
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Well established procedures used to collect and analyze information about family experiences
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Theories
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Sets of general principles or concepts used to explain a phenomenon and make predictions that may be tested and verified experimentally
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Concepts
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abstract ideas that we use to represent the reality in which we are interested
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Conceptualization
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The specification and definition of concepts used by the researcher
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Operationalization
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the identification and or development of research strategies to observe or measure concepts
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Deductive research
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research in which concepts are turned into variables
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intervening variable
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Affected by the independent variable, race and in turn affecting the dependent variable, life expectancy.
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Inductive research
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Not hypothesis testing research
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Macro level theories
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focus on the family as a social institution
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Social institution
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the organized patter of statuses and structures, roles and rules by which a society attempts to meet certain of its most basic needs.
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Family ecology theory
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how families are influenced by and in turn influence the wider enviornment
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Environmental influences
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influences that come from an outside environment
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Structural functionalism theory
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explains how society works how families work and how families relate to the larger society and to their own members
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subsystems
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different structures that perform functions for its survival
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Conflict Theory
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life involves discord and competition
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Gender
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the social aspects of being female or male
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Symbolic interaction theory
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looks at how people interact with one anothers
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Social roles
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Established patterns of behavior that exist independently of a person such as the role of wife or husband
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social exchange theory
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measure of our actions and relationships on a cost benefit bases seeking to maximize rewards and minimize cost
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Family developments theory
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The only one exclusivity directed at families. Emphasizes the patterned changes that occur in families through stages and across time.
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normative age graded influences
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biological or social influences that are clearly correlated with age
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Normative history graded influences
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come from historical facts that are common to a particulate generation such as the political and economic influence
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Family systems theory
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Combines two of the previous sociological theories structural functionalism and symbolic
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Quantitative research
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deals with large quantities of informations that is analyzed and presented statistically
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qualitative research
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concerned with a detailed understanding of the object of study
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secondary data analysis
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involves reanalyzing data orginally collected for another purpose
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