COMM 305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Varg Vikernes, Enculturation, Family Therapy
16 Dec 2016
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Identity reflective self-conception or self-image that we each derive from family, gender, cultural, ethnic, and individual socialization processes. Social identities includes cultural or ethnic membership, gender, sexual orientation, social class, religious affiliation, age, disability, or professional identity. Personal identities includes any unique attributes that we associate with our individual self in comparison with those of others. Traditional families consists of husband-wife, father-mother pair with a child or children, a father working outside the home, and a homemaker-mother. Extended families consists of extended kinship groups, such as grandparents, aunt and uncles, cousins, and nieces and nephews. Blended families refers to the merging of different family systems from previous marriages. Single-parent families refers to a household headed by a single parent. Personal family system include the emphasis on personal individualized meanings, negotiable roles between parents and children, and the emphasis on interactive discussions within the family.
