Sociology Revision What is the family? “The family are a close group of people‚ usually related not always. Who support each other and at some point in their lives tend to live in the same household.” There is no correct definition on the family‚ Sociologists do not agree on a definition‚ broadly there are two types of definition; • Exclusive definitions – These focus on the specific relationships within the family unit i.e. marriage • Inclusive definitions – These focus on the functions
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Applied Sociology and Your Family Anne Lucas Harrison College Sociology Jenifer Stevens February 10‚ 2013 Applied Sociology and Your Family The applying applied sociology into your family topic appealed to me for many reasons. As a parent I constantly worry about the affect my parenting choices will have on my daughter. I always second guess my decisions and often wonder if she thinks I am a good mother. I want to do right by my daughter by making sure she is getting what she needs from
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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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in the birth rate and family size since 1900. Since the 1900 there have been changes in the state polices‚ changes in attitudes and changes in our living standards which have led to unbalanced changes in birth rates and family size. Firstly in the early 1900’s there was no health service and a poor quality of life and there had been an industrial revolution know has industrialization which had meant that many workers and their families had left their homes and extended families to live in houses that
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society is the family. The family by definition "a fundamental social group in society typically consisting of a man and woman and their offspring or two or more people who share goals and values‚ have long-term commitments to one another‚ and reside usually in the same dwelling place" (Mifflin 2000). In order to further elaborate on this institution we most look at the family on how it was before and how much it has changed to this date. One of main changes in the dynamics of families is the social
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the increased family and household diversity in the last 40 years. (24 marks)Functionalists believe that the modern family can be generalised to a ‘cereal packet image’ – named because of the way that the media portray the typical family that consists of two parents‚ one male and one female‚ and then two or three children. However‚ there is now a strong body of evidence to suggest that there are now a wider variety of family types‚ which shows that there has been an increase in diversity within the
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Evaluate postmodern views on the diversity of family (33marks) The idea of family diversity suggests that there is no dominate type of family‚ therefore none can be considered as the norm. However there are studies to suggest that in historical periods of Britain like when it was industrializing there is dominating types‚ in this period it was considered to be the nuclear family. Rapoport and Rapoport agreed that there are five types of diversity in a contemporary family‚ these are: Organisational
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Diversity in American Families The family in America has come through an elongated way and has evolved a lot ultimately. Liberals and conservatives have their have their diverse views on the American family nowadays. It is extremely tough to bring and organize a family nowadays. Nevertheless‚ there are a number of easier means to raise a family nowadays as well. Several of the issues that are the subjects of discussion in the evolution of families are divorce and its consequences‚ welfare‚ vulgarity
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Modern Family‚ a TV show now airing on ABC tells a series funny story of three distinctive families’ daily life. Jay is the father of the first family and he is a retired man‚ but his wife Gloria‚ and his stepson Manny‚ are from Colombia. Jay’s daughter Claire and her husband Pill have three children: Haley‚ Alex and Luke. Their family is often considered the typical American family. Claire’s brother Mitchell lives with his male life partner Cameron and they adopted a daughter Lily from Vietnam
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non-traditional family. Both of my parents had children at a young age so I was raised with two half-siblings. Although it felt like my brother‚ sister‚ and I were fully related‚ I grew up spending time with their biological parents and other half siblings as well. This never bothered me; rather‚ it taught me that every family is different and exceptional in their own ways. As with my family‚ I have found there is great value in diversity among my friends. When I was a child‚ my family moved into a
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