Communications Chapter 7 Homework Sexual Identity Function Ask Students Analyze The

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CHAPTER

COMMUNICATION AND FAMILY ROLES AND TYPES

This chapter addresses the concept of role as it applies to families and introduces family

and couple typologies, which may be used to understand and potentially to predict

patterns of interaction. The first section presents role definitions and describes how

KEY TERMS

Conformity orientation Conversation orientation

Fitzpatrick’s marital types Gottman’s conflict types

McMaster’s family role functions Role conflict

Role enactment Role negotiation

Role expectations Spillover

ASSIGNMENTS/EXERCISES

1. Marital Relationship Role Negotiation Interviews

Ask students to interview married couples about the negotiation of role functions as

2. Extended Family Network

Give students the following direction: discuss with a partner the ways in which your

extended family stays in touch. Identify the key person or persons who manage the

3. Role Functions

Have students divide up into five groups. Each student takes one of McMaster’s five

essential family functions needed in family roles and shares with the group how this is

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4. Gender Roles and Health Communication

Have students read an excerpt from Kiecolt-Glazer & Newton (2001) Marriage and

Health: His and Hers (or you may want to paraphrase with a summary of key findings

5. Gender Roles and Work

Have students read Medved et al. (2006) Family and Work Socialization

Communication: Messages, Gender, and Ideological Implications in Journal of Family

Communication to illustrate the different messages men and women receive regarding

6. Sexual Identity Function

Ask students to analyze the sexual identity function within their own or another family

MEDIA ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Application of Role Appropriations

As a variation ask the group to choose a movie or book and share how they perceive

these functions being enacted, or show movie scenes and ask groups to identify the

2. Family Communication Patterns

Have students brainstorm TV families that they think characterize consensual,

3. Family Role Negotiation

The TV series Modern Family stars the Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan, a large and

blended combination of three families that together portray an honest and often

4. Gendered Expectations of Parenting Roles

Compare and contrast expectations of fathering vs. mothering in the media. Many

5. Gendered Expectations of Parenting Roles in Same-Sex Families

Similarly, it may be fruitful to discuss gendered expectations of parenting roles in

same-sex families. Clips from Modern Family serve as apt illustrations for negotiation