Theory:
Lets the readers know that there is a connection between concepts.

Model:
A
visual or verbal diagram to show how things are related.

Typology:
are
different type of categories with subsets of larger characteristics

Intellectual
traditions: Is a way the humans think and find an interaction
with the world.

Post-positivist
Approach: That the human mind is surrounded by conjectures and
not the whole truth.

 Interpretive Approach:
Is partly created by the user and can be subjective.

Critical
Approach: Theories only exist and brought ot light only to be
changed and or challenged.

Social
process time:  A
way human can process time by using family experiences to divide time.

Systems
theory: used to analyze family communication along with
tracing family communication history.

Wholeness:
Is a unit made up of multiple personalities and is not just a member of the
family.

Interdependence:
When
one family member starts to affect another.

Hierarchy:
Are made up of different structure whether that be through community or family.

 Boundaries/openness: Can
have open or closed boundaries that are able to take in information or decline
it.

Calibration/feedback:
Through
the means positive or negative feedback, rules are created and maintained to
hold a family together.

Equifinality:
Goals
that can be reached through several ways.

Subsystems:
are
levels in a Hierarchy

Suprasystems:
Systems that are located in other systems. 

Morphogenic:
systems
that get changed or are changed.

Homeostatic:
Systems that don’t change.

Social
construction theory: when a system lacks a meaning, this theory
creates a meaning for that system.

Genogram:
visual
prestation of family communication through patterns and goes back at least
three generations.

Textual
analysis: Researchers must identity a specific text for
analysis.

Depth
interviews: Can ask questions that will gain more
information about certain topics or interest through the person being
interviewed. 

Experiments:
have
an independent and dependent variable that the independent causes a change in
the dependent variable.

Surveys:
Questionnaire that are given to a sample group or specific group of people.

Triangulation:
tackling
the questions with more than one type of method.

 Quantitative research: research
that must be gathered by using numbers so that a type of argument can be
created.

Qualitative
research: happens through experience, not based of numbers and
researchers have to make guesses.

Developmental
theory: seeks regular patterns in a family’s historical
traditions during the developmental stages.

Revised
developmental theory: reworking theories that cause problems
to researchers to create new a solution for the original problem.

Cyclic
alternation: happens at different times in a family
development and only happens one at a time.

Segmentation:
happens in one domain of family life and then another in a different domain.

Selection:
Choosing
one of the poles at the extent of losing the other one.

Integration:
Combining
two or more objects so that they can work well with each other.

Neutralizing:
comprise between two poles to create a happier medium.

Reframing:
transforming a dialect so that there is no opposite.

Disqualifying:
choosing a certain pole for one aspect but optioning out specific issues from
the patterns.

Dialectic
approach: an ongoing tension between family members to create
contradictory impulse between members.

The
public and the private dialectic: Tension between a
family’s public and private life.

The
real and the ideal dialectic: images of made up family
life and real-life family situations.

Implicit
theories: thoughts that are in the human mind.

Calendar
or clock time: used for when plans are being made and a
way to measure time.

Autonomy/connection
dialectic: the want to be independent but also want
some type of intimacy with the family.

Openness/protection
dialectic: Wanting to be open and reveal information
to the family but also want to protect one’s own communication.

Novelty/predictability
dialectic: wanting a change but also wanting to keep
a stable lifestyle.

Worldview:
how
other people see the worlds and try to understand the world they live in.