Test 1 Flashcards
(142 cards)
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Intimacy
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Sharing intellectually, physically, and emotionally with another person
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When does intimacy occur?
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When someone discloses information about themselves and becomes vulnerable
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Family Strengths Perspective
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Rather than focusing on negative pathologies and dysfunctions, focuses on strengths and ability to cope and overcome challenges as a quality of strong families
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Diversity
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Cultural groups bring a wide range of values, beliefs, and practices to help understand marriage and families
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Same-Sex marriage court case
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Obergefell v. Hodges
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Number of countries that allow gay marriages?
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30
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Number of countries that don’t allow gay marriages?
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70
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Who invented the characteristics of marriage?
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Carl Broderick
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Exclusionists
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Very narrow definition of marriage
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Moderates
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Count same-sex couples as family if they are children involved
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Inclusionists
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Very broad definition of family
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True or false: More people are forgoing marriage all together
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True
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True or false: Most people find cohabitation uncommon
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False
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When are divorce rates higher?
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In black communities, The West and South, and in young people
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What percentage of marriage will end in divorce?
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40-50%
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Who is more likely to get remarried after divorce?
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Men
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Are divorce rates higher in marriage or remarriage?
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Remarriage
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What causes remarriage to fail?
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Children And lower SES
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What are some trends in mothers?
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There are more bread winner mothers
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What’s an egalitarian marital relationship?
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Sharing the work to accomplish the responsibility of family life
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How do high income families find time together?
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They hire labor to free up time
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How do low income families find time together?
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They create time during mealtimes, etc.
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What has technology done to agriculture?
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Decrease in farmers and smaller towns
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What is the most common stressor on families and couples?
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Debt and financial issues
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What are different strengths of ethnic groups?
Individual, family, and cultural
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Cultural identity
Involves shared beliefs, values, and attitudes
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Race
Common physical characteristics of a group; generally describes skin color or hair type
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Ethnicity
People's common ancestry; When values, beliefs, and customs have been passed down through generations
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Culture
How people make sense of their environment and experiences
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Why did the Latino population grow so much?
Immigration and New births
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What is the second largest minority?
African Americans
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What is a unique characteristics of American Indians?
They live in communities with their own sovereign political entities with tribes that have their own governance, culture, and history
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What do immigrants risk and deal with?
Deportation and access to services
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Refugees
People who come to the US because of conditions in their country.
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What challenges to refugees face?
Learning a new culture and finding a way to make a living.
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What are the five elements of cultural competence?
Acknowledge cultural differences, undedstand your own culture, engage in self-assessment, acquire cultural knowledge, and view behavior within a cultural context.
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Kinship
The relatedness of certain individuals
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Assimilation
Old cultural traits are completely dominated by the new cultural traits
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Assimilation
Old cultural traits are completely dominated by the new cultural traits
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Acculturation
The blending of the old culture and the new culture
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Idiographic approach?
Focuses on the unique aspects of individuals and families
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Nomothetic Approach?
Focuses on the ideas that apply to the majority of families or individuals
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Conceptual framework
Helps organize thinking through a particular perspective through a set of ideas, concepts, and assumptions
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Theory
General principles composed of interrelated concepts
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Hypothesis
Presumed and testable relationships between variables
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Research Study
Designed to test one or more specific hypotheses
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Eclectic Approach
Open minded approach to learning, life, and open to contradictory ideas
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Open or Morphogenic system
Open to growth or change
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Closed or Morphostatic system
Maintains the static quo and closed to change
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Centrifugal interactions
Push family members apart
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Centripetal interactions
Pull the family together
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Positive feedback
Intended to create change
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Negative feedback
Designed to minimize change
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Family systems theory
Focuses on the family as ongoing interconnected members
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Family system
Group in which family members are interconnected and operate together
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General systems theory
Sets of principles and concepts that can be applied to all system types, living and nonliving
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Interdependence of Parts
Members of the family are interconnected in such a way that when one family member changes, it affects the others as well.
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International Family Strengths framework
Focuses on why couples and families succeed rather than fail from a global perspective
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Family development framework
Useful for thinking about the stages of family life
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Life course
Describes the transitions one make through life
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Symbolic interaction framework
Based on shared meanings: verbal and non-verbal
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Role
Expected behavior associated with a particular status
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Role taking
People learn role by practicing and getting feedback from others
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Social construction framework
Human beings are profoundly immersed in the social world; our understanding of this world and are beliefs are social products
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What is difficult to develop in a social environment?
Individuality
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Postmodernism
Emphasizes the notion that people live in a complex world, and multiple perspectives and truths are in constant interaction and conflict with one another
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Feminist framework
Society should commit to empowering women and changing their oppressed condition
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First Wave
Women's fight for equal contract and property rights
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Second Wave
Workplace, sexuality, family, and reproductive rights; included diverse people
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Third Wave
Pay difference, reproductive rights, violence against women, and women global equality
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Fourth Wave
Shattering glass ceilings, reproductive rights, workplace discrimination, and campus rage
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Gender
Learned behaviors and characteristics associated with each being male or female
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Instrumental role
Being in charge of tasks
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Expressive role
Being nurturing
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Ecofeminism
The dominance of nature or the nonhuman world
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Enmeshment
Too much together
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Family communication is...
Linear
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Communication
The way human create and share meaning, both verbally and nonverbally
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Women's view of communication
Communication is the way relationship with others is sustained
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Men's view of communication
Needed to settle problems, complete an objective or develop a plan
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Where are cultural differences evident?
Gestures, greetings, and eye contact
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Why is communication for the gay and lesbian community complex?
Discrimination and secrecy
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How do gays and lesbians explore their sexual identity?
On the internet
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How do gay people communicate with extended family?
They are less likely to seek support because it could either be positive or negative
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Linear causality model
An interpersonal communication model that assumes a direct or linear relationship between cause and effect
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Linear causality model example
If it weren't for you, I wouldn't act this way
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Circular causality model
Denying responsibility for what has happened and for changing it and preventing it in the future: escalates into conflict
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Circular causality model example
I withdraw while you nag and you withdraw cause I nag: cycle repeats
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Verbal
Straightforward and given out verbally
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Nonverbal
Facial expression, etc.
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Mixed messages
Verbal and nonverbal behaviors that convey contradictory messages
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What do mixed messages create?
A barrier to understanding
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Double blinds
When a person is given contradictory messages with verbal and nonverbal messages that causes conflict
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When do double blinds occur?
When the relationship is unclear
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When can help double blinds?
Metacommunication
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Metacommunication
Talking about communication
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Dilemma
Possibility of creating problems in close and independent relationships
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Continuous partial communication
Constant flow of communication i.e. social media causes us not to be able to fully pay attention to others
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Self-disclosure
Revealing intimate aspects of oneself to another
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Passive communication
Giving up, giving in, or backing down without standing up for yourself
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Assertive communication
Communication that takes a listener's feelings and rights into account
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Aggressive communication
Self-serving communciation
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Assertiveness
The ability to express ideas and concerns while respecting the other person
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Partner dominance
The degree to which a person feels that his or her partner is trying to dominate or control the relationship
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Stonewalling
Shutting someone out
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Conflict
One person apposing the other
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True or false: most couples are afraid of anger?
True
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What is the psychological explanation for suppressing negative emotion?
Security, interdependence, struggle to find balance
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Sociogical explanation for suppressing negative emotions
Believing all disagreements in the relationship are wrong
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Pursuers
Tend to want to create connected or enmeshed relationships
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Distancers
Create disengaged or separated types of intimate relationships
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Underfunctioners
People who in many areas of life can't seem to get organized; high feldixibility
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Overfunctioners
Knows what is best for them and everybody else; well organized and low in flexibility
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Blamers
Person responds in time of stress with emotionally intense feelings, try to change people, hold others responsible
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Demand-withdrawal communication
One person tries to talk about a problem, blames the other person, and tries to get them to change
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Middle age couples
More likely to solve problems due to pressure
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Older couples
More likely to agree to disagree and have adaptive solutions
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National date for same,sex marriages?
June 26th, 2015
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Threats to family structure?
Lack of time, violence and criminal victimization, drugs and alcohol, urban migration, financial problems
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Community in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Search institute
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In intimate relationships in the context of diversity factors are...
Generational
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Largest minority group?
Hispanic
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What is cohesion?
Emotional closeness
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Rigid system (flexibility)
Too much stability
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Structured system (flexibility)
More stability than change
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Flexible system (flexibility)
More flexibility than stability
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Chaotic system (flexibility)
Too much change
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Disengaged system (cohesion)
Too much separateness
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Connected system (cohesion)
More separateness than togetherness
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Cohesive system (cohesion)
More togetherness than separateness
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Enmeshed system (cohesion)
Too much togetherness
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Suprasystem
Encompasses the larger component
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Wholeness
Whole family is more than the total of all its individual members
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Qualities of strong families?
Appreciation and affection, positive communication, spiritual well-being, commitment, enjoyable family time, ability to manage stress
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Symbols
Based on shared meanings
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Looking-glass self
Learning about oneself based on the feedback received from others
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Parsons and bale (1955)
Assumed that family was most functional if male plays the instrumental role and female plays the expressive role
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Personification
Notion that everything that one's partner does is a personal reflection of oneself
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Couple and Family Map
Built on cohesion, flexibility, and communication
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Hierarchy of conflict
Bottom to top: tension and pressure for a decision increase
Bottom: exchange of daily events; Top: Crisis
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Systems in flexibility
Rigid, structured, flexible, and chaotic
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Systems in cohesion
Disengaged, connected, cohesive, and enmeshed
