COM 3125 Lecture 10: COM Chapter 10
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Reoccuring patterns of behavior developed through the family members interactions enacted to fulfill family functions. Uncle & nephew i. e. cannot be a wife without a husband. Ex: due to personal growth/different partners/experience, a woman may have different behavior from one marriage to the next. Role expectations models & norms of how roles should be enacted. Example: young women are more likely to be told to make career decisions to accommodate the family, while men who stay at home would be given negative reactions. Spillover bidirectional merging of roles of work life and family life. Ex: father jarvis and son jamal discuss bringing a new family member into their system and it requires negotiation. Mcmaster model of family functions (know the 5 but not the details of each: adult sexual fulfillment & children"s gender socialization, nurturing & emotional support, individual development, kinship maintenance & family maintenance, basic resources.
