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What are the main family theories?
Other family theories employed include feminist theory, symbolic interactionism, family development, phenomenology, family power, and exchange theory. In this chapter we will briefly discuss six such theories: Family Systems, Family Developmental, Life Course, Social Exchange, Ecological, and Feminist. When understanding the family, the Family Systems Theory has proven to be very powerful. Family systems theory (Kerr and Bowen, 1988) is a theory of human behavior that defines the family unit as a complex social system, in which members interact to influence each other’s behavior. Family members interconnect, allowing to view the system as a whole rather than as individual elements. The 8 concepts are: Nuclear Family Emotional System. Family Projection Process. Multigenerational Transmission Process. Emotional Cutoff. Families boost our confidence and make us feel loved. They are the pillars of our strength who never fall instead keep us strong so we become better people. We learn the values of love, respect, faith, hope, caring, cultures, ethics, traditions, and everything else that concerns us through our families.
What are the five family theories?
The major frameworks that sociologists use to help the questions we just posed include functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, social-exchange theory, and feminist theory. Each theory looks at different perspectives of a family or explains why things happen using different reasoning. Other family theories employed include feminist theory, symbolic interactionism, family development, phenomenology, family power, and exchange theory. Family systems theory is important as it studies human behavior in a family context. The role of the theory is to analyze the complex social system within a family unit, which influences individual behavior through interaction. The family systems theory is a theory introduced by Dr. Murray Bowen that suggests that individuals cannot be understood in isolation from one another, but rather as a part of their family, as the family is an emotional unit. The eight principles of family system theory are: triangles, differentiation of self, nuclear family emotional process, family projection process, multigenerational transmission process, emotional cutoff, sibling position, and societal emotional process.