Exam 2: Family Scholarship in Action: Theories, Methods and Ethics

Most family mediation programs were established in the 1990s, but empirical research on the effectiveness of such programs is not conclusive. This indicates the need for:

Triangulation refers to:

We might approach understanding the different meanings of housework for men and women through:

Using the example of Edin and Kefalas' research on women who place motherhood ahead of marriage, suggest some directions for longitudinal and comparative research on this topic.

People often ask of battered women: "Why do they stay?" Which theory helps us understand the complex calculus of costs and benefits in such a woman's life?

_____ helps family scholars move beyond description to explanation and even prediction.

Does your institution have an Institutional Review Board (IRB)? What is the purpose of the IRB?

To determine the causal relationship between family dinners and family harmony, your best choice for a research would be:

In her _____ analysis, Embser-Herbert describes the lesbian family as being in tension with the dominant society, with the result that lesbian families have a more difficult set of structural constraints.

Families are increasingly at risk in today's society. That sentiment is at the core of _____.

Two family studies theories emphasize equilibrium. Those two theories are:

To determine if Edin and Kefalas' findings about American women are generalizable to women in other societies, we would need to collect:

Ethical issues faced by family scholars:

To determine if Edin and Kefalas' findings that some women are putting motherhood ahead of marriage is an emerging trend among American women, we would need to collect:

You wish to obtain valid data about not what parents say they do, but about what they actually do in real life. You might engage in which of the following research method?

Family life course development theory considers the:

Zimmerman's essay on MADDADS illustrates the place of the black family in the urban environment. This is an application of _____ theory.

September 26, 2011 is the 10th anniversary of Family Day: A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Family, launched by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse. (See a related story at http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/taste/129921943.html). The author of a recent letter to the editor in the Minneapolis Star Tribune linked family dinners to the quality of parent-child relationships in her own family. Read the letter at http://www.startribune.com/opinion/letters/130473903.html. Besides the absence of family dinners, what factors could affect the quality of family life?

Differentiate between problems of research methods and problems of research ethics. How might one affect the other?

All of the following are true about surveys EXCEPT: