Family may be the most basic, yet essential, aspect to every different culture throughout the world. Out of the various categories presented in this project, I believe family is the most important aspect to any culture, and it is also one of the most globally recognized basic units of culture. According to Aaron, the idea of a family has evolved within the culture of South Korea over numerous years. For example, the father used to be predominant and powerful because of South Korea’s power distance. Women used to not have as many job opportunities as they now do today, so the males were viewed as the hardest workers and the heads of the families. In the United States, however, the male and female both have similar “power” within the traditional family, as the United States’ power distance has gradually grown closer. Many people throughout the Western world have different assumptions about South Korean culture and their family structure. …show more content…
Men usually labor outside, taking care of field crops, while women normally work inside doing housework, spinning, weaving, and cooking. Also, poor women usually have no choice but to work outside in the fields. On the other hand, the more elite a family is, the more unlikely the women will be seen outside of the house. However, according to Aaron, after liberation from the Japanese in 1945, the history and the structure of South Korean families drastically changed. Now most South Koreans live in cities and work in factories or large companies and no longer farm. Each person in the family still has a clearly defined role, each dependent on others within the family unit. Finally, Aaron stated that South Koreans adapt their traditional ideas of spiritual and biological interdependence within the family to new
As we have learned through Skolnick’s book, as well as Rubin’s research, the make up of the family is influenced by many factors. The economy, culture, education, ethnicity/race, and tradition all help to create the modern family. The last few decades have heavily influenced the family structure, and while some try to preserve the past, others embrace the future. Through it all, we find you can have both.
I interviewed Rita Wright from Northwest Georgia Housing Authority. She is in charge of resident services. She is an African American with a predominately African American clientele; therefore I knew I would be able to obtain much information from her viewpoint. When I asked Ms. Wright to talk about her key values and characteristics common in her culture she talked extensively about family. Family is a major part of her life. She stated that she is like most African Americans in which family values are extremely important. There are several people in her life who have earned the title of aunt, sister or cousin who are not blood related. These are individuals who have always been there for her and her family, so they too are considered just like family. Most African American families are embedded in complex kinship networks of blood and nonrelated individuals (Diller, 2011). To Ms. Wright there is nothing more precious than family. If family wrongs you, you forgive and forget. If family needs help, you must be there for them. In the end family is all we have.
THOSE OF US WHO grew up in the 1950s got an image of the American family that was not, shall we say, accurate. We were told, Father Knows Best, Leave It to Beaver, and Ozzie and Harriet were not just the way things were supposed to be—but the way things were
Alice Elliott Dark’s In the Gloaming, represents how much family time is important to one’s heart. “…caregiving must be a way of life. This does not mean that caregiving is all of life.” Alice shows the opposite of good family time to hint at the reader of what is really going on behind the scenes. The author “pulls the reader directly into the world of caregiving by dramatizing the meaning of reciprocal human relationships. It also highlights some of the central themes of this book- that there is a difference between caring as sentiment and caring as practice, that caring is crucial to the human community, and that it entails skills that can be taught and learned.” The main character, Laird, was a normal teenager who liked to have fun and hang out with his friends. Laird and his parents did not have the closest relationship but they would still talk about certain things. Everything was turned upside down for Laird, his parents and somewhat for his sister as well. He became very sick with an unnamed illness. Laird never wanted to talk to his parents about the illness because he was embarrassed.
In, “The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” one of the first doctrines stated in the entirety of the document is “ALL HUMAN BEINGS—male and female—are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents, and, as such, each has a divine nature and destiny,”. This powerful statement serves as a reminder that each person comes from a divine heritage. It is a prompting that all of God’s children should love and be confident in themselves because they are truly are child of God. He wants us to be able to remember these teachings and follow his divine plan to help us create own our family.
Family Systems Virtue is a paramount importance in the Asian values. People are expected to serve others as a moral obligation. This helps explains the Asian family structure. In Asian culture, patriarchy prevails, with the father exerting a dominant influence, whereas the mother seldom ventures out of the home. In America, Asian women are forced by economic reasons to work outside the home, however, for the elder generation, it has been difficult to change thousands of years of cultural traditions.
A kinship is relationships found in societies that is determined by birth or marital connections. While interviewing my colleague Jessica, I learned about her kinship and how her family structure works. She has close relations with all of her nuclear and extended family. In addition, Jessica kinship taught me about how the United States has certain norms for family structures, and her family does not conform to them.
I had the opportunity to have a discussion with two extremely significant women in my life regarding what expectations they had when it came to matrimony. First I had a conversation with my mother-in- law, since she is 74 years old and my in-laws became married in September 1960. I was informed that in the sixties everyone in high school transpired to be engaged and were willing to get married immediately after they graduated high school. Therefore when you were 18-19 years old, tying the knot that young was considered the average age. My mother-in-law believed that a decent number of individuals became married early in life because it was something the public expected from them. Society produced women and men to believe that men are assumed to be the bread makers while women are home makers that stayed home cooking, cleaning, and food shopping
"A family is a small social group of people related by ancestry or affection, who share common values and goals, who may live together in the same dwelling, and who may participate in the bearing and raising of children. They have a physical or emotional connection with each other that is ongoing" (Vissing, 2011) and is the foundation of all societies. They can be formed by a grouping of father-mother-children or even more complicated combination of relatives. In the primary stage of family life in the United States, everyone from every generation lived together in one house. Subsequently, the idea of traditional family evolved and a married couple with children is at present, often called the traditional family. There are many types of families; however, this paper will focus on the traditional family. It will describe how the functionalist perspective, conflict perspective, and the interactionism theory apply to the sociological institution known as a family. It will explain some of the similarities and differences between the sociological theories in regards to families and how they affect the family members.
Family is the people in your life that will always be there for you no matter what. They will not only try to challenge you, but make you a better person. They are there to give you support, but to tell you when you mess up. The family that we are born into give us our first insight on different values, and ideas. We share most of our “first experiences” with them, but there are some that we save for our chosen family. The family that we are born into are the first glimpses into what life is actually like. They show us how the world works, how to act in public, the difference between what is right and what is wrong. They introduce us to sports and other things we enjoy. We turn out the people that we are because of our family influences us
Korean women were not allowed to be engaged in any sort of jobs. Their job was to be either a daughter, a wife or a mother. Majority of married women had to rely on the support provided by men in their family (Gelb & Palley, 1994). The only way for women to be able to prosper independently is the ability of their own access to economic resources. However, the Confucian ideal of strict sexes made it extremely unlikely for women to be independent regardless of their social statuses. The reading “Mother stake 1” perfectly explain women struggle to be independent in the traditional society, without relying on the men of their family. However, it also explains how women can gain independence as time progresses. For example, Omma abandoning her traditional lifestyle to becoming a manual labor, for the sake of her own independency. Until the late 20th century, women’s position in employment changed significantly due to the movement that seeked for gender equality. Since 1960, Korea rapidly boosted their economic growth from the transformation of an agricultural society to a industrializing nation. Because of this extraordinary economic industrialization of the country, such condition provided women with increased on opportunities of employment (Gelb & Palley, 1994). According to Kim Ae-sil (1990), there were no more than 50,000 womens that were employed in 1963, but by 1989 there’s been an increase over 800,000
In 2009, American Broadcast Channel changed the way America viewed families with the premiere of the hit television show Modern Family. The show follows three families, Jay Pritchett’s and his two children, from his first marriage, Mitchell and Claire. Jay is married to a much younger woman, Gloria, who has a child from a previous marriage, named Manny. Mitchell lives with his partner Cameron and they have an adopted Vietnamese daughter, Lily. Claire’s family is the most like the traditional family. She is married to her husband Phil Dunphy and together they have three kids, Haley, Alex, and Luke (Modern Family). The show exposes the families’ struggles to get along and survive with such a different way of living. With that said, their family picture demonstrates very well all of the strong personalities and roles of each family member.
In order for society to meet the basic social needs of its members, social institutions, which are not buildings, or an organization or even people, but a system whose of social norms, mores and folkways that help make people feel important. Social institutions, according to our textbook, is defined as a fundamental component of this organization in which individuals, occupying defined statues, are “regulated by social norms, public opinion, law and religion” (Amato 2004, p.961). Social institutions are meant to meet people’s basic needs and enable the society to survive. Because social institutions prescribe socially accepted beliefs, values, attitudes and behaviors, they exert considerable social control over individuals.
Some parents may say that they do not have family values, but whether they realize it or not, they do have family values that they are passing onto their children. Those values may be positive or negative, but many parents wonder why those family values are important. Family values can be defined as values that are reinforced within a family and are used to set a standard for morals and discipline. Family values are important because they provide a solid family foundation, model behavior from parent to child, and influence the character and ethics of children.
Everyone seems to define family differently, however, the significance of family is the same. For you, family means everything. You can always count on your parents and siblings for help and love. Family is very valuable and important to you and should never be taken for granted. No one can deny that family is the foundation of our generation. A family is where we all start our life journey and helps us grow to be successful throughout our lives.