Select any three theoretical perspectives and discuss how each one views the family.
What will be an ideal response?
but could include structural/functional, with a focus on the function of the family, particularly in relation to social order; conflict/critical theory, which focuses on the family as a point of stress, strain, and conflict that affects individuals and interacts to affect society as a whole; feminist theory, which focuses more specifically on the gender roles in the family and the different economic and social positions and interests of men and women; symbolic interactionism, which focuses on the meanings that are socially constructed through family identities, roles, and relationships; and exchange theory, which looks at the family from the perspective of choices made based on rewards and costs.
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a. whites moving away from blacks b. whites wanting to live in mostly white neighborhoods c. income inequality d. laws which require separate but equal neighborhoods.
The idea of critical distance was proposed by
A. Harriet Martineau. B. Jane Addams. C. Georg Simmel. D. Robert Park.
Secondary industry refers to ______
a. services that are of primary importance in an economy b. manufacturing c. extracting resources such as in mining, logging, fishing and farming d. the earliest industries to develop in a society
An organization that influences one small segment of an individual's life or influences an individual's life for only a short period of time is a ______.
A. subculture B. counterculture C. microculture D. mesoculture