Applied Sociology within the Family Applied sociology is a part of everyday life. Families experience sociological changes when parents get divorced‚ a new job is taken‚ or they get discriminated against. Most people may not think of family as a small society‚ micro level society‚ within itself. All families have a hierarchy of power beginning with the head of the household which tends to be the father. The way a family forms its own small society is interesting. Family roles have change dramatically
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Conjugal roles are the roles a man and woman play in a household or relationship. Elizabeth Bott determined two polar conjugal roles: Segregated roles where the husband and wife do not share housework‚ childcare‚ decisions and leisure time‚ and Joint roles‚ where the husband and wife do share housework‚ childcare‚ decisions and leisure time. Willmott and Young argued that husbands and wives increasingly shared both leisure and decision-making and that their relationships were becoming more symmetrical
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Examine the New Right SOT of the family The New Right are a group of people that believe in tradition; they are strongly against change and support the conservative party. The New Right see the ideal family as heterosexual couples with two or three children as an outcome and symbolic meaning of the love between the man and women‚ otherwise known as a ‘Nuclear family.’ The commitment between the man and women should demonstrate through a marriage and the responsibilities within the marriage will
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Examine the view that the nuclear family is universal /25 Sociologists are fascinated by how society is changing‚ they believe to some extent the family enables them to see how order has come about. Murdock suggested that the nuclear family is universal. He defined the nuclear family as ‘a social group characterised 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
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Religious Conflicts within Families Religion can be a source of unity within families but can also cause conflicts within families too as well as between countries. Main ways in which religion can cause conflicts within families: 1. Children no longer wanting to take part in their parents’ religion. If parents are religious and go to a place of worship‚ they will expect their children to go with them. If their children refuse when they reach their teens‚ this can cause conflict because:
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1.) Knowledge Contributor - Proposes original ideas or different ways of approaching group problems or goals. This role initiates discussions and move groups into new areas of exploration. 2.) Process Observer - A person occupying this role forces the group to look at how it functions‚ with statements such as‚ “We’ve been at it for two and a half hours‚ and we have only taken care of one agenda item. 3.) People supporter- A person that affirms supports and praises the efforts of fellow group
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Men’s roles in relation to reproduction and the family have in recent decades been increasingly dismissed‚ rendering the traditional institutions of marriage and family obsolete. Proponents argue that men are not needed in a family unit‚ providing the mere genetic code for their children‚ thus are replaceable and “obsolete”. I believe that this can be best explained by developments in reproductive technologies and the gender revolution – its effects on marital satisfaction and meanings attached to
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a very large city that has outstripped its national urban network and become part of an international global system. The three dominant world cities are New York (United States)‚ London (England)‚ and Tokyo (Japan). Other categories of world cities include major and secondary. But they do not have the same influence as the three major world cities. World cities have many major functional components in order for them to become a world city these include: * Being a center of leading global markets
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GOVERNMENT & POLITICS ESSAY HOMEWORK Have UK Prime Ministers become more Presidential in recent years? In recent times many commentators have pointed out that the UK’s Prime Ministers are increasingly acting like Presidents- of course the UK Prime Minister cannot actually become a President as the system would not allow it. Below I shall be analysing and explaining the factors that highlight the growth of presidentialism in the UK‚ as well as the points which suggest that the UK’s Prime Minister
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Examine the role of Mrs Danvers in the novel‚ from her first appearance to her disappearance Mrs Danvers is a key character in the novel Rebecca for a lot of reasons. It is always good to have a ‘baddie’ in a story and Mrs Danvers fills this role. She keeps the plot moving forward and is always in the main parts of the book‚ there to under mind the narrator. From the very first appearance of Mrs Danvers we get a sense of her Personality. Her role in the novel is to belittle the narrator‚ to make
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