t is my attention to investigate the relationship between the culture of the family and how it is structured. Before I investigate any further I need to understand the meaning of the word family. According to the dictionary, the word family is the basic unit of society connected with blood ties and clan relations. But, to better understand families and the specific relations they represent, we must realise that the term “family” changes in the response to a wide variety of the social and cultural conditions.
In China, it is difficult for the people to accept the idea of being sent to nursing homes when they are old, as long as they have sons and daughters they will live with them. This then pulls the family closer. Even though some old people
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This may include how in most cases the parents will love and respect their child, but their children will also respect their parents in a way that they see as appropriate, even though the way they show their respect maybe different but at the end of the day they all love each other. No matter where you live there will be differences in the same culture. There is always rich and poor and their perspective of things are always differently. This means that even though culture makes a huge affect on how the family is structured other factors also take a part in the making of a family structure. Even though many Chinese parents try to have boys some parents wont mind if they have a girl this is because those parents are more educated and believe that having a child that can grow up healthy and safe is more important than what sex their child is.
In conclusion, after all the research on the different variety of explanations I have reason to believe that culture has a huge effect on the family structure. There may be other reasons, like wealth, knowledge, experience and much more, to explain why family structures are different, but it is obvious that they play a far less important role in the development of family structure compared to how the culture of the family affects the development of the family structure. The culture makes that families perceive things differently and this is something that the other reasons can not explain
A family is a group of people consisting of the parents and their children who live together and they are blood related. The family is always perceived as the basic social units whether they are living together in the same compound or at far distance but are closely related especially by blood. Therefore, the family unit has had a great influence on the growth and the character traits possessed by the children as they grow up and how they perceive the society they live in. the family also shapes the children to be able to relate well with other people that are not part of their family and with a good relationship it impacts to the peace achieved in country. This paper addresses the reasons as to why the family is considered the most important agent of socialization. It’s evident that families have changed over time and they have adopted different ways of living. This paper also tackles on the causes of the dramatic changes to the American family and what the changes are. Different people with different race, gender and preferences make the family unit and this makes the difference in marriages. This will also be discussed in this paper.
With the deep influence of Confucianism, Chinese regards family very different from the western world. The filial piety is the most fundamental virtue in Confucianism. Growing up, Chinese learns the traditional confucian values in schools and in homes. Chinese respects Confucianism and follows all the rules in Confucianism. Failing to be filial will bring a huge shame to the family. Even more, the Chinese society and government mandatory force adult children to follow the filial piety. Family is the most important unit in the Chinese society. Chinese lives with the whole family; the three-generational cohabitation is the most ideal family pattern in the Chinese society. The grown-up children support and respect their old parents. Children
Families were essential in ancient and medieval civilizations. They were the basis of most aspects in historic civilizations. They determined who controlled different aspects of these societies, appointing leaders and rulers to govern over them; much like the familial dynasties of ancient China. They also determined the social status of individuals. Families also let to the extension of lineages, passing down values and beliefs through generations; and they also produced offspring’s that can then serve the societies in which they are born to by advancing technology and serving in their armies. Families would also be created to be merge houses, clans, and other civilizations into one. Indubitably, families were important to these ancient and
The valued family structure has been the foundation for generations in history; however, the traditional American family is changing. The revolution has been influenced by the “choices people make and the constraints that limit those choices” (Benokraitis 21). The family structure is forever changing as a result of many dynamics including micro-level and macro-level influences. Fluctuations in the family unit are affected by these factors. These factors should be kept in perspective, stressing the individual choice while not neglecting the macro-level influences. Micro-level influences are personal situations such as a couple not saving money for an unplanned pregnancy. Macro-level influences are comprised of things such as economic forces,
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.
Many think that culture has nothing to do with lifestyle or that one has nothing to do with the other but they both go hand in hand. Culture and lifestyle is many different things and the effects it has on the parent child relationship can vary. How can that be possible? Well there are many different cultures and lifestyles around the world that can either make a happy and positive parent child relationship or put a strain on it making it negative. For example going from living in a married household to living in a divorced household may cause a child to resent their parents putting a strain on the relationship between the parent and child. Both culture and lifestyle has an affect on the relationship of parent and child. The different aspects of both culture and lifestyle such as food, travel, religion, single-parent households, employment etc. can negatively or positively affect a parent child relationship.
"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.
The family structure refers to the combination of individuals that encompass a family. This combination of individuals most commonly comprises a mother, a father and child. The cause of the breakdown of the family structure ranges from divorce, widowhood, to children born to unwed mothers. The breakdown of the family structure is an ethical dilemma which has perpetuated poverty in America. By rebuilding the family structure, we can turn the tide on poverty in America.
According to Simons et al. (2004), “the family is considered to be the most significant social system in which all individual function” (p. 96). The family consists of many synergistic and intricate parts creating a unified working system. Within the family system, each individual plays an important role in its healthy or unhealthy development, needs, desire, and specific family type, and overall success. “From whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love” (Ephesian 4:16). The family system is influenced by all elements ranging from spiritual, culture, traditions and genetic
The family is a societal institution which initiates the positive and negative process of social interactions between people. Over the last few decades what constitutes the family has changed all over the world. Family in today’s environment is diverse in nature and may go beyond the scope of parents and children. Families can consist of variations in relationships such as close relatives, stepparents, half siblings and extended non-biological family members. Normally, immediate family members live in the same house, nearby, until the child reaches a specified age and maturity to go into the world and start their own family. Most often members of the families have intimate and personal relationships with each other. Within the family there is a continuation of social interactions between members that can influence and shape peoples responses and reactions to their larger societies.
What is a family? A family is two or more people consider themselves to be blood related, or related by marriage, or adoption. Our families are who we love. We as families look different in so many ways. A family’s caregiving unit might have a couple, a mother, a father, and children. A family could also be a single parent and child, a group of siblings, a small or large group of friends. A family defines itself in many different ways. Families are the foundation of how our society and how it works. It is how we come into the world and nurtured and given the tools that we need to go out into our world. We are both capable and healthy or not our families influence our lives either in a good way or a bad way. While families
Everyone is born into some form of family, with the family taking the responsibility of nurturing, teaching the norms or accepted behaviors within the family structure and within society. There are many types of families, which can be described as a set of relationships including parents and children and can include anyone related by blood or adoption. Family is the most important, “for it is within the family that the child is first socialized to serve the needs of the society and not only its own needs” (Goode, 1982).
Family by its nature is a social unit wherein children grow up and it acts like the socialization agent. Children receive their earliest and most consistent socialization here in the family. In a family it is very important as to how parents cater the needs of their children and how children take care of them in return. Parents as well as the child are very important part of the developmental process, as it is the parents who will shape the children as what they will become. The parent child relationship influences each other and together they shape the relationship they engage in it. Family is a social unit where in all the members living together is related to one another. Family is regarded
Family is arguably the most important social institution in an individual's life. A family is defined as a group of individuals that are related through blood ties, adoption or marriage, that form an economic unit, where the adult members are responsible
In this discussion, I will be explaining how I define family. I will also include my immediate and extended family. I will also describe what family means to me, how mine differs from other families in my neighborhood, and also how they are similar. I will also describe my family’s ethnicity and how it may affect any of my family’s health. To me, a family is a group of people that are brought together by blood, adoption, or marriage.