FS210 Exam 1

Spring 2003

Answer all of the following:

1. List the sentiments of the nuclear and permeable families. (6 points)

a. Nuclear:

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b. Permeable:

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2. What are the changes according to Elkind that produced the differences in these sentiments? (6 points)

3. a. What is Elkind’s concept of Family Imbalances? (5 points)

b. What are the imbalances in the nuclear and permeable families? (5 points)

4. List the basic tenets of modernism and postmodernism. Give a family example of each. (10 points)

Answer 2 of the following: (14 points each)

5. Provide a concise definition of the traditional nuclear family. What changes in the definition would be necessary today? What societal changes (think here in terms of philosophical changes not specific examples of change) have occurred that led to these changes?

6. In several places Elkind discusses changes in attitudes about children and adolescents from the modern to postmodern periods. What is the fundamental nature of the change, and what brought it about?