FRHD 1020 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Margaret Mead, Number 1 Single, Family Therapy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Nancy Gervasi

Document Summary

Discuss the following ideas and why they are important to consider when conducting family research. Social dynamics: change can be measured across points in time, identity and change are central to developing a dynamic theory, does not look at unique events or changes. Events: individuals lives are experienced as events, actual date is not important. The event contains the information about out lives: most events are considered normative , ex. Pregnancy is a stage or period of time, but finding out one is pregnant is an event. Pathway: at any point, always possibility of a stage transition, transitions depend on. How long have you been in that stage. The social norms favoring one type of transition over another: individuals think their pathway is their choice, but, historical and random factors arise to change of modify our pathways. Discuss how the example from the film up! relates to the concepts discussed above.