3. Week 02: Understanding Family Dynamics & Theories

Hi. How have you been so far?

What we learned in this week is Family Theories and Genogram.

today I would like to share what I have taken notes about the theories here.

* Theories
1)Systems theory : The intimate group must be analyzed as a whole; the group has boundaries that distinguish it from other group. People connect through symbols, such as what we wear, what we do, and words.

2)Conflict theory : All societies are characterized by inequality, conflicts, and changes as groups within the society struggle over scare resources.

3)Symbolic interaction theory : Everyone plays important roles in a family. The key word is circular causality.

4) Exchange theory : Human beings all attempt to keep our costs(time, money, emotions, energy) lower than our rewards(gratification, money, good feelings)

They are interesting to me. I have never thought my family relationships in that views.

If you have some thoughts or want to correct my post, feel free leave your comments.

Have a great weekend!

2. Week 01:Social Trends and the Family / FAML 160

Dear, my classmates.

Hi. How was your first week in this class?

In this week, we talked about trends related to the family.

The trends that interest me are Divorce, Birth rates, Births to Unmarried Women and Asian women are marrying at a later age.

Especially, I am really interested in the last trend as an Asian. haha

I think this is relative with economic factors. For example,  there is a wide spread misunderstanding that people should have their own houses and cars before marriage. In my opinion, those people tend to avoid unprepared marriage like living without stable living status. So it contributes the trend. Is it same in America or another country? I want to know.

Also, we watched the video called Demographic Winter. It talked about the population growth. But I didn't get the concept of it exactly. So I need someone who can explain this in an easy way. I will really appreciate if someone does. Anyway after watching it,  I though about having my children in the future, because I felt shocked with birth rates in the world.
As a convert, I had been afraid of having big families and many kids before I got baptized. Also I am from a small family which are four of us, including my parents, and a older sister. So I hadn't thought about having big families and seen them often during my life. In fact, I cared the economic factors for raising children a lot. But after watching the video, I realized that having kids is the holy privilege for human beings and how it is important.

I want you to learn a lot of things from these lesson we had in this week. 
If you can help me understand through this blog, it would be best.
Have a good weekend!

From Casey

1. Intro of this blog

Hi. Nice to meet you.

The purpose of this blog will be for Family Relation class in BYU-I actually.

But I will post my thought like a letter that I send you guys.

I hope you send me back as comments.

Also I post some interesting things about Korea, as long as I have.

So please visit my blog as many time as you can.

Thanks so much.