SOC271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Chaos Theory, Labeling Theory, Sociology Of The Family
8 Jun 2018
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Social Exchange Theory
Basic premise: Individuals in social interactions attempt to maximize rewards and minimize
costs in order to obtain the most profitable outcomes.
Costs and rewards may refer to tangible things (e.g., money, property), they also include
intangibles (e.g., status, attention, worry, pressure, companionship, love, social approval).
5. Developmental Approach:
As with the interactional/situational, this approach also views the family as a unit of interacting
personalities.
Point of departure - family life cycle or stages of development through which the family travels
-- (time dimension)
views the family in its changing composition and roles over the family life cycle from marriage
to death.
1. married couple (w/o children)
2. with pre-school children role changes
occur at each stage
3. with school age children
4. with no children left at home
5. widowed state (death of spouse)
Activities shift with the changes in the family life cycle.
Criticisms - the contemporary family is diversified. Its variant forms do not necessarily fit this
model. This model was based on the traditional middle class family involving parents and
children.
How does the lone-parent family fit this model -- the reconstituted family, divorce and
remarriage?
The family does not necessarily go through all the typical stages.
6. Institutional Approach:
- descriptive and historical orientation
This approach was principally evolutionary analysis in which changes in the family were
observed over time and the family was viewed in a broad institutional and historical
perspective.
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Document Summary
Basic premise: individuals in social interactions attempt to maximize rewards and minimize costs in order to obtain the most profitable outcomes. Costs and rewards may refer to tangible things (e. g. , money, property), they also include intangibles (e. g. , status, attention, worry, pressure, companionship, love, social approval). As with the interactional/situational, this approach also views the family as a unit of interacting personalities. Point of departure - family life cycle or stages of development through which the family travels. Activities shift with the changes in the family life cycle. Its variant forms do not necessarily fit this model. This model was based on the traditional middle class family involving parents and children. The family does not necessarily go through all the typical stages. This approach was principally evolutionary analysis in which changes in the family were observed over time and the family was viewed in a broad institutional and historical perspective. role changes occur at each stage.
