Question 1

Explain the organic ontology of functionalism.

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Question 2

Describe how a researcher could study Canadian families by taking a Marxist approach.

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Describe the symbolic interactionist perspective by highlighting Mead's research in this area.

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Describe how a researcher could study Canadian families by taking a family systems approach.

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Question 5

Discuss why women are still responsible for a greater proportion of unpaid household work, even though the number of women in the paid workforce is increasing.

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Explain what is meant by the family system theory's belief that the locus of pathology is not within the person but in a system dysfunction.

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Question 7

Discuss three theoretical approaches on families discussed in this chapter.

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The feminist movement of the 1960s may be responsible for the greatest changes in our definition of family. Agree or disagree with this statement and support your opinion with evidence from this chapter.

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Question 9

Discuss why the way we define family has implications on who does and who does not receive access to programs, policies, and privileges. Use specific examples to support your answer.

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Question 10

Margrit Eichler identified a number of biases that can occur in family research. Discuss three of these biases.

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Discuss the variation of perspectives that exists among feminist researchers today.

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Question 12

What is meant by the term "social reproduction?"

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Quiz 1: Introduction to Diversity in Canadas Families: Variation in Forms, Definitions, and Theories