1. What makes something interdisciplinary? What can interdisciplinary studies accomplish? What are the limits of interdisciplinary studies?
2. Here are three definitions of family: The U. S. Census Bureau says: A family is a group of two people or more (one of whom is the householder) related by birth, marriage, or adoption and residing together; all such people (including related subfamily members) are considered as members of one family (http://www.census.gov/population/www/cps/cpsdef.html). In 1949, anthropologist George Murdock wrote: The family is a social group characterized by common residence, economic cooperation, and reproduction. It includes adults of both sexes, at least two of whom maintain a socially approved sexual relationship, and one or more children, own or adopted of the sexually cohabiting adults. Murdock adds that there are three types of family organization: nuclear, polygamous, and extended (Murdock, G., 1949, Social Structure. New York: Macmillan, pp. 1-2). Family therapist, Monica McGoldrick declares: The family comprises the entire emotional system of at least three and increasingly four generation, who move through life together, even though they often live in different places.From a life cycle perspective it is important to track family patterns over time.Problems are most likely to appear when there is adislocation in the family life cycle such as death, illness, divorce (McGoldrick, pp. 30-31).
Using William Newells stages of the interdisciplinary process described in Learning Module 7 (YOU WILL FIND IT IN THE FILES ATTACHED) compare these definitions.Show how one discipline is not sufficient to define a family, show the differences and common ground between these three definitions. Develop a new definition of family that does its best to integrate these three definitions and any other definitions you find pertinent into a more comprehensive perspective. Discuss what parts of the three definitions can be combined, and what, if any, pertinent elements of a family cannot be incorporated into a synthesized definition of family.
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