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Sourcebook of Family Theory & Research


Sourcebook of Family Theory and Research


 

Alan C. Acock, Vern L. Bengtson, Katherine R. Allen, Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, David M. Klein, Editors

This is a self assessment survey that was completed by many of the Sourcebook authors. Take this self assessment yourself. After you complete all the questions, you will receive your score.

Statement Totally Disagree Mostly Disagree Somewhat Disagree No Opinion Somewhat Agree Mostly Agree Totally Agree
All sound knowledge about families is grounded in observation

              
The motor of progress that guarantees the emergence of superior family forms is competition among increasingly differentiated individuals

              
Family studies as a science consists of a body of interrelated, true, simple, precise, and wide-ranging universal laws that are central to prediction and explanation

              
All sciences can be integrated into a single natural system

              
A carefully crafted plan to unify all sciences syntactically and semantically is worth pursuing

              
Family studies as a science tries to discover causal laws about families for the purposes of prediction and explanation.

              
To be meaningful, a proposition about famines must be verifiable

              
I belong to a secular religion of humanity devoted to the worship of family life

              
Family science progresses by conjecturing hypotheses and attempting to refute them, so that false conjectures are eliminated

              
Family sciences progresses by inducing law-like statements from observational and experimental evidence

              
Family studies as a science consists of collection and statistical analysis of quantitative data about families

              
Improvements in knowledge about families are what increase the quality and stability of family life.

              
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