SWB110

attempts to explain the way people in particular social positions are expected to behave, or the way in which they develop particular patterns of behaviour when they occupy such positions

draws on the idea of system as used in engineering, to describe the family as a whole entity in which all the parts are seen as closely interconnected

Suggests that babies and young children need to create satisfactory emotional bonds with their caretakers if they are to develop as healthy children and adults, and make adequate relationships through life

Refers to the regular patterns of division in society that are associated with membership of particular social groupings, generally in terms of advantages and disadvantages, inequalities and differences.

Refer to government statements, goals and courses of action concerning the provision of welfare and distribution of goods that affect family lives, resources and forms but can be implicated in a wide range of policy areas

Term used for those families said to be on the margins of mainstream society in terms of their behaviour and values

Sees the family as an institution constituting as a basic building block of society, performing certain functions that must be fulfilled for social order to be possible and for society to continue

Share a concern with power inequalities that occur within and between families. Tend to bring into view the family as an oppressive institution

Refers to the meaning and expression of close family and personal relationships, and the qualities that they may be supposed to provide

Dyadic Relationships may be classed as marriage/partnership/coupledom - expected to have durability.

Concerns interactions between family members about how to understand a situation, and the courses of action that emerge from these understandings

Focuses on making all women visible, drawing attention to gender politics and see family, and mothering in particular, as a key of power.

A central concept within psychology for understanding change during the early years of life. It is rooted in a biological view that sees these years in terms of maturational stages from baby-hood through adulthood.

Refers to an individuals ability to influence others to do what the individual wants

Replacement of the population, Care of the young, Socialisation of new members, Regulation of sexual behaviour, Source of affection

A culturally determined pattern of behaviour that is prescribed for an individual who occupies a specific status or rank in relation to others

An atagonistic state or actions involving divergent ideas or interests

Directed at resturcturing distorted beliefs in order to change dysfunctional thoughts/behaviours/interactions

Elements, patterns, traits, or institutions that are common to all human cultures worldwide.

Elements, patterns, traits or institutions that are common to all human cultures worldwide

A set of interpersonal processes through which cultrual meaing is passed on and changed

the focus of meaning making is within the individual; their interpretations

the focus is on meaning making and developing shared understandings through processes of social interaction

feelings, thoughts, motives etc. that both influence and reflect your understanding and expressions of your place in the world

helps us understand how stereotypes, stigma, discrimination and ethnocentrism are created through processes of social interaction

• Chronosystem (time)
• Macrosystem (cultural)
• Exosystem (structural)
• Mesosystem (social)
• Microsystem (relational)

Inner World

• Biological
• Spiritual
• Psycological

Outer World

• Relational
• Structural
• Social
• Cultural
• Time

Our behaviour both influences and is influenced by others

a system will seek to restore the known balance

• Power is a perception - if others do not perceive someone's power than their behaviour is not dominant
• Power as a relational concept - one individual cannot be dominant without someone else being submissive
• Power as resource based - usually represents a struggle over resources 
• Principle of least interest and dependence power - person with less to lose can have greater power
• Power as enabling or disabling - power can be used to achieve success or excessive power can cripple relationships
• Power as a perogitive - person with more power can make/break the rules 

1. Couplehood
2. First Child
3. Additional Children
4. School age 
5. Adolescence
6. Launching (children leaving home)
7. Re-coupling (children becoming partnered)
8. Aging parents 

• Kinship
• Interests
• Locality Groups

Four Concepts

1. Weak ties - friend of a friend
2. Strong ties - relationships of trust, mutality and reciprocity
3. Vertical ties - link a community's people and organisations to large insitutions and societal structures (connect us outside of our community)
4. Horizontal ties - the links between people and organisations within the community 

• Marxism - focusing on class inequality
• Feminism - focusing on gender inequality
• Critical race theory - focusing on race inequality
• Critical social theory - critiques power at all levels (challenges the assumptions upon which theories of 'order' are based