Showing papers presented at "Field and Service Robotics in 1988"
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01 Jan 1988
TL;DR: It is argued that not only is family research still difficult to conduct, but that it suffers qualitatively as a resulr of persisting personal and even political bias in the foimulation of research problems and the interpretation of research fi1dings.
Abstract: Harold Christensen wrote in 19f4 that family research was a difficult undertaking because of the inability of scholars to put aside their strong values about family living and their own family experience for the sake of objectiie social science research. The literature in family science has more than iripled since Christensen made this statement, and we're now talking about a distinct knowledge 9*g i" family study, i.e., family nscience." yet we woutd contend that not only 1s family research still difficult to conduct, but that it suffers qualitatively as a resulr of persisting personal and even political bias in the foimulation of research problems and the interpretation of research fi1dings.
9 citations
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01 Jan 1988
TL;DR: An histoical overview of the relevant developments and streams in ecologt and lwman ecology in order to establish a framework for tlrc study of family life from an ecological perspective is attempted.
Abstract: In this article we attempt an histoical overview of the relevant developments and streams of tlrcught in ecologt and lwman ecologt in order to establish a framework for tlrc study of family life from an ecological perspective. In part two of tltis paper (to be publislted in the next issue o/ Family Science Review), we will identify and discuss in more detail the important cortsiderations and constntcts of ecologt we believe are applicable to the study of family ltft.
8 citations
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01 Jan 1988
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the use of Epistentologies in the farnily discipline and propose a new epistemology based on the phenonina process and its properties.
Abstract: Tltis paper is an ottentpt to descibe several aspects of the epistentologies tlnt are used in the farnily discipline. It argues that phenonina suilt as the blnlt process and gerwotion.s ,ntake the "fantily reahn" uniEte in tlrc sante way econonic, psychic, social, and histoical plrcnontena are unique, and ttis has allowed sclrolars in the last four decades to begin developirtg i family discipline tlrut is as basic or pinury as the otlrcr social sciences-. The four-intetticnat traditiorts tlut haveb.een using these new epistemologies in snidying tlrc fanily are descibe4 and it is sugested that they have ionstructed'ntlore prt"rory explanations tlran _is gelerglly recognized. several uamples of their pinnry explanations are descibeQ and the paper concludes wiih some specitlatioris about fudre possibilities tlrc new epistemologies may make possibli.
6 citations
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01 Jan 1988
TL;DR: A review of underyraduate and graduate programs is presented to identify some of the similaities and dffirences in family science depaftments, especially in terms of strucfiue, emphases, and adnission citeia.
Abstract: A review of underyraduate and graduate programs is presented to identify some of the similaities and dffirences in family science depaftments, especially in terms of strucfiue, emphases, and adnission citeia. In addition, the information provides a contpaisort for sfirdents, both in terms of departments and available opfions, as well as sonrc of the isnrcs facing students h making a decision of where to attend school. This analysis is not an attempt to make a comparison in terms of quality, but onty in terms of stntctural and entrance citeia.
5 citations
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01 Jan 1988
TL;DR: The study of family issues has long been a topic of interest in the general disciplines of sociology, psychology, anthropology, home econbmics, psychiatry, edircation, and social welfare as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Th." study of family issues has long been a topic of interest in the general disciplines of sociology, psychology, anthropology, home econbmics, psychiatry, edircation, andiocial y_ork. In, recent years, family studies, rather than being of tangential interest, has blossomed into an identifiable field of study in its own right lfaJt Force #5, L987). Yuty. sociologists identily themselves as famiiy sociologisis or family demographeri. Even in psychology, where the traditional focus of attention has been intrapsycfuc, there is a greater recognition of the family context. In fact, in 1985 the APA eitablished the division o! "family Psychology" and in l-987 a new professional journal by the same nems was founded-(Liddle, 1987). Family development also has beLn emerging as a force in the family field, and many scholars associated within these departmints refer to themselves as family scientists (Leigh, 1987). A new journal, started by the Family Discipline section of the National Council on Family Relations, called Fbnily Sciencb Review, was also eatablished in 1987.
5 citations
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01 Jan 1988
TL;DR: A typologt of divide-and-conqueried family forms, based on past research studies of family functions and structure, is developed to help researchers and -theoists organize and classifl, families type as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: A typologt of divene family forms, based on past research studies of family functions and structure, ,s developed to help researchers and -theoists organize and classifl, famity type. The matrix. based upon traditional and emerying family functions and structures, appeqrs supeficially to follow the mold of the traditional stntcural/functional framewortg with each type of family fitting into on9 murually exclusive quadrant. However, unlike earlier applications of structural-fitnctional inatysis, this typologt ,f applied to a range of vaiant fa tly forms
5 citations
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01 Jan 1988
TL;DR: This article articulates the conceptual commonalities and differences that are found in-the utilization of an ecological framework within the social and -beluvioral sciences and identifies and discusses four citical tenets for a Famity Eco[ogt which is offered as an altemative interdisciplinary approach to the complex srudy of family phenomena.
Abstract: In this article we continue our discussion of the precurson to a Family Ecologt by articulating the conceptual commonalities and differences that are found in-the utilization of an ecological framework within the social and -beluvioral sciences. We then examine the implications of human ecologt for an ecological study of the family. Finally, we identify and discuss four citical tenets for a Famity Eco[ogt which is offered as an altemative interdisciplinary approach to the complex srudy of family phenomena.
4 citations
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01 Jan 1988
TL;DR: The sample is therdore'small and accidental, but even with theserimitations, if appropiate care is tuken in how the finding is done, if Approaches to begin conecting inr, a4rur*y.
Abstract: considerabre data have been gathered on Ameican graduate programs for over five deca.d3s, but none b1 tne surveys have iituded fam,y science progroms. This smdy is ctn ottempt to begin conecting inr, a4rur*y. The datu rcpofted here are from anonymousry compreted questionnaires from 5s professionars who weie inteniew;d as 'paft oi a fact finding tour of famity science programs. The sample is therdore'small and accidental, but even with theserimitations, if appropiate care is tuken in how the findingsoa.re use4 the data or, 6ati, tian the previous condition of no
4 citations
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01 Jan 1988
3 citations
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01 Jan 1988
TL;DR: TIrc theoretical linits to vaiation in the organizational and interactional premises of family systems are investigated and it is concluded that only a finite seies of fundamentally distinct family paradigms are needed to close the seies and account for alt possible mechanisms of regulation.
Abstract: TIrc theoretical linits to vaiation in the organizational and interactional premises of family systems are investigated. A formal logic is.applied to tJrc'elementary requiieients of hrunan systems in the abstract, independentof empiical issuis. This teads b tlrc conclusion that, with reasonable restrictions on'tlrc dontain of application, only a finite seies of fundamentally distinct family paradigms are psts;6t.. Beyond-the four uaiants previously recognized (closed" 'randoh, open, and synclronous), ai additional regime, representing a syntlt.sis of "open" ind "syncironous" systems,,is hypothesize-d asnecessary and nfficient to close the seies and account for alt possible mechanisms of regulation' Some characteistic features of tltk fonn of systemic organization and operation have been deived.
3 citations
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01 Jan 1988
TL;DR: It is my opinion that the authors' academic job market simply cannot absorb so many new professon that it is time for faculty and students to consider, prepare for, and even create new oppoftunities for family scientists.
Abstract: Famity scientists are beginning to recognize that many carcer options are available to them. Oun rs a relativety new discipline, and our past effofts were focused on developing a sense of idcntity as a profession. Ilte could hardly prepare students for altemative careen until there were enough scholan and professon to handle the academic training of family scientists. Now, we a.re approaching the saturation point for academic positions. In a 1987 survey of all student memben of the National Council on Family Relations, nearly 40Vo of respondents indicated that thq expected to practice family science in an academic setting. It is my opinion that our academic job market simply cannot absorb so many new professon. It r time for faculty memben and students to consider, prepare for, and even create new oppoftunities for family scientists. This essay will descibe one such career, that of the legislative research analyst.
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01 Jan 1988
TL;DR: Examining the parent-child (p-c) relations research pubtished in Child Development and the Journal of Marriage and the Family since 1980, and comparing tlrcse data to earlier firtdings, there are recent signs of rapproclrcment in the use of ntore sinilsr researclt ntetlrcds and in nTore frequent cross-jountal citatiorts.
Abstract: The present study updates the findings of our previous research that ctrild and family specialists fitnction in virual isolation from each other (Endstey & Brody, 1981). Examining the parent-child (p-c) relations research pubtished in Child Development and the Journal of Marriage and the Family since 1980, and comparing tlrcse data to our earlier firtdings, we lwve conchtded ttnt cttild and fanily specialists still approach the study of p-c relatiorts witlt sttbstantially dffirent metlrcdologies and subjects. However, cortcomitant with a drantatic increase in the percentage of p-c studies publislrcd in botlt jountals duittg 8586, there are recent signs of rapproclrcment in the use of ntore sinilsr researclt ntetlrcds and in ntore frequent cross-jountal citatiorts.
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01 Jan 1988
TL;DR: The role of similaity in the mate selection/courtship progress area is examined in this paper, where the authors discuss low to modest relafions, unusabTe relations, no clear view of.
Abstract: The role of similaity ln the mate selection/courtship progress area is examined. A bief history of the use of similaig and tne proakis associated with its use are discussed low to modest relafions, unusabTe relations, no clear view of.how similaity olerutes in relationship development. It is proposed that a possible explanation for tle problem lies in the ways in which similaity is measured. A compaison of self perceptions is the more dominant assessment technique, but evidence form social interaction theory and the social psychologtcal literarure on person perception sus.ests thai suclt compaisons moy be inappropiate. A compaison of selfand other-perceptions may be a mory apprcpriate method of assessment, but has its own problems. Tlrc titeranue in this area is reviewed and directions for funre researih are sugested.