Why study families and other close relationships?

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Family	A relationship by blood, marriage, or affection, in which members may cooperate economically, may care for children, and consider their identity to be intimately connected to the larger group.
Family of orientation	The family that you are born into.
Family of procreation	The family you make through marriage, partnering, and/or parenthood.
Fictive kin	Nonrelatives whose bonds are strong and intimate.
Marriage	An institutional arrangement between persons to publicly recognize social and intimate bonds.
Socialization	The process by which people learn the rules, expectations, and culture of society.
Social structure	A stable framework of social relationships that guides our interactions with others.
Micro level	Focus on the individual and his or her interactions in specific settings.
Macro-level	Focus on the interconnectedness of marriage, families, and intimate relationships with the rest of society.
Social institution	A major sphere of social life, with a set of beliefs and rules that is organized to meet basic human needs.
Status	The social position that a person occupies.
Master status	The major defining status or statuses that a person occupies.
Human agency	The ability of human beings to create viable lives even when they are constrained or limited by social forces.
Monogamy	Marriage between one man and one woman.
Polygamy	A system that allows for more than one spouse at a time (gender unspecified).
Polygyny	A marriage pattern in which husbands can have more than one wife.
Polyandry	The marriage pattern in which wives are allowed to have more than one husband.
Patriarchy	A form of social organization in which the norm or expectation is that men have a natural right to be in positions of authority over women.
Matriarchy	A form of social organization in which the norm or expectation is that the power and authority in society would be vested in women.
Egalitarian	The expectation that power and authority are equally vested in men and women.
Bilateral	Descent that can be traced through both male and female sides of the family.
Patrilineal	A descent pattern where lineage is traced exclusively (or at least primarily) through the man's family line.
Matrilineal	A descent pattern where lineage is traced exclusively or primarily within women's families.
Neolocal	The expectation that a newly married couple establishes a residence and lives there independently.
Patrilocal	The expectation that a newly married couple will live with the husband's family.
Matrilocal	The expectation that a newly married couple will live with the wife's family.
Nuclear family	A family composed of adults and their children.
Extended family	A family composed of parents, children, and other relatives such as grandparents.
Companionate family	A marriage based on mutual affection, sexual attraction, compatibility, and personal happiness.
Empirical approach	An approach that answers questions through a systematic collection and analysis of data.
Survey	A form of research that gathers information about attitudes or behaviors through the answers that people give to questions.
Random sample	A sample in which every "person of interest" has an equal chance of being selected into your research study.
In-depth interview	A research method that allows an interviewer to obtain detailed responses to questions.
Experiment	A controlled method for determining cause and effect.
Focus group	A small group interview of people who are brought together to discuss a particular topic.
Observational study	A research method that goes into the natural setting and observes people in action.
Secondary analysis	A research method in which the data were collected for some other purpose but still are useful to the researcher.
Quantitative research	Research that focuses on data that can be measured numerically.
Qualitative research	Narrative description with words rather than numbers to analyze patterns and their underlying meanings.
Theory	A general framework, explanation, or tool used to understand and describe the real world.
Structural functionalism theory	A theory that attempts to determine the structure, systems, functions, and equilibrium of social institutions.
Conflict theory	A theory that emphasizes issues surrounding social inequality, power, conflict, and social change.
Feminist theory	A theory in which gender is seen as the central concept for explaining family structure and family dynamics.
Social exchange theory	A theory that draws on a model of human behavior used by many economists. It assumes that individuals are rational being, and their behavior reflects decisions evaluated on the basis of costs - both direct and opportunity costs- and benefits.
Symbolic interaction theory	A theory that emphasizes the symbols we use in everyday interaction - words, gestures, appearances - and how these are interpreted.
Developmental theory	A theory that suggests families & individual family members go through distinct stages over time, with each stage having its own set of tasks, roles, and responsibilities.
Systems theory	A theory that proposes that a family system - the family members & the roles that they play - is larger than the sum of its individual members.

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