Intimate Relationships in a Changing Society Key Terms and Definitions

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Accessibility - the availability to a child.
Assimilation - making new information compatible with their world understanding.
Accommodation - According to Jean Piaget, the process by which a child makes adjustments in his or her cognitive framework to incorporate new experiences.
Authoritarian childrearing -A parenting style characterized by the demand for absolute obedience.
Authoritative childrearing is a parenting style that recognizes the parent's legitimate power and stresses the child's feelings, individuality, and need to develop autonomy.
Bifurcation of fatherhood - recognize the two sides of contemporary fatherhood
conduct of fatherhood - Men's actual participation in raising their children.
Culture of fatherhood - Ralph LaRossa's term for our beliefs about fathers' roles, responsibilities, and involvement in raising their children. LaRossa noted that these beliefs had changed more dramatically than has the conduct of fatherhood.
Developmental systems approach - An approach to human development that recognizes the importance of the individual's interactions within a complex and changing family system and the larger society's numerous systems.
Ego - s rational and mediates between the demands of the id and the constraints imposed by society.
Engagement - A pledge to marry.
Game stage - According to the symbolic interactionist theories of George Herbert Mead, the stage in self-development is in which one can understand a variety of other perspectives simultaneously.
Id- In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the personality seeks to gratify pleasurable needs, especially sexual ones.
The ideology of intensive mothering - The term used by Sharon Hays to refer to beliefs about what mothers ought to provide their children. The key elements of intensive mothering are full-tim...