1. The text quote Bale explains that an instrumental leader leads the group discussion about how to accomplish the task they have been assigned and the expressive leader is there to keep up the groups spirits with emotional support. The family role of the instrumental leader is generally the father and the expressive leader is the mother.
2. The idea of families consisting of a house wife and a bread winning father shifted. More women were getting careers and altering the past trend.
3. Conflict theory is based solely on power and who has more of it. While in the functionalist theory where both husband and wife offer equal important services to the family, conflict theory focuses on who takes control of the household and dominates decisions.
4. The discipline that social exchange theory is based on is a trading ground. Two groups offer services of good that the opposite group are in need of, and with that, equally trade services and goods to gain necessities. This example, though, is fairy tale like, and many issues may arise like that of the husband verses the wife. In this trade of services, husbands can use their income as a means to gain power over their wives. Though they are sharing and trading services, the husband gains more power over the wife by putting more emphasis on the importance of his services of the wife's.
5. Feminist theory is based on gender and the inequalities between men and women. In more depth, the text gives examples of how gender can determine ones pay or job title.
6.
A) Do families with fewer children live more fulfilling and happier lives?
B) I would like to study the family at a micro level to gain perspectives from each family and to gain a more intimate understanding of the family situations.
C. A combination of random surveys and observational interactions would make for the best and most accurate outcomes, and seeing that we have no budget, this would be the best method to collect data.
D). A higher number of participates will add for more evidence however the study is concluded, therefore, an estimate of 200 participates would allow accurate results.
E) How many children do you have?
Do you feel over worked or stressed at home?
On a scale from one to ten, with ten being the happiest, how would you rate your life?
Joseph: You are very bright and have many good ideas. However, your writing is a bit awkward. I hope you take a writing class, because then you would have the complete package. Don't take this as anything but constructive criticism. I think high schools are failing students, we have to LEARN to write, and it takes a lot of work on both the student and teacher side.
ReplyDelete