The reality of the conversation that I had with my parents that night allowed me not only to realize my gender, but realize what it meant to be a man. My dad had taken on the responsibility of financial advising, emotional stronghold, all time driver, caretaker of the farm, provider, father, and husband for as long as I had been alive. I realized all the things that my dad had taken care of for the past fourteen years was now my responsibility, even if only for a weekend. The beginning years of my life, my father and I weren’t that close, but after this moment, I enraptured that feeling of being trusted by my dad to do his job. In this lifetime, we all have responsibilities that must be taken care of for this world to continue on as we know it. After being able to look into your life and realize who you are and who you …show more content…
When talking with my mother concerning the topic of what is expected of my father, I found a long list that has been instilled in me from a very young age. The list of the responsibilities included: paying the bills, driving the car everywhere we went, providing the money for mom to purchase food, providing for our lifestyle, keeping the yard mowed, keeping the house warm or cold, etcetera. Each of these responsibilities taught me how to be a contributing part not only of my family, but of my society.
Paying the bills meant that my father for most of my life worked six days a week, along with preaching on Sunday’s so that we were able live comfortably. Because of the extra work that my father accomplished, he was able to show me a true value of money, a value that meant I too could live corresponding to him some day. My dad sacrificed time with our family, so that he could provide the best of the best of everything that we needed. This made the time that I was able to spend with my father immensely more appreciated by my mother, sister, and
In this paper will be talking about the three sociological perspectives as it pertains to the fraternities and sororities in today’s world. I have chosen this topic because it can be easily understood in all three perspectives.
Back in the day when I was very little, I remember that my dad used to take care of me. He would never let me run around the house when glass could off break and hurt me. As I kept growing up my father started to give more freedom but also gave me more responsibilities; like he wanted me to do the chores of the house, not all of them but some. I knew they were not mine to do but I still help. When I went off to college and I had to do all by myself, I realize that my father did good on making me do my laundry, chores and etc., when I was young. Besides I knew that I had to do my chores for me to go out with friends. Although I had this kind of responsibilities at a young age I can say that it helped in life. But because some parents overprotective their children and they are not exposing to real life, children might not know how to function in society when their parents die.
One of the sociological theories is conflict theory. The conflict theory deals with people's level on wealth, or class. The conflict theory says that social change is beneficial, contrary to focuses on social order. In the story of the woman and her children, the conflict theory plays a big role on the situation. Police of higher class are threatening the homeless woman. The conflict theory is a constant struggle of people of higher class over powering people of lower class, or the weaker. The police are trying to over power the woman by telling her to leave. Even though the woman and her children were doing nothing wrong, the police used their power to tell her to leave. Also the people of the area showed their conflict theory by telling the police officers to come. They must have felt embarrassed to have a woman of such lower class to be around them. They used their power of class to have the woman removed from their community. The woman wants to be there because she has no home and it is a good community to be in, but the people look at it as an embarrassment to them because it makes their area look bad for someone of such lower class to be around them. The conflict theory is unique to all other theories because it separates people into categories determined by their wealth and standards. Their status is the element that categorizes them, weather it is class, race, or gender. The conflict theory do not always use class, race, and gender all at once. In this situation race and gender is not a main issue, although gender could be a reason, but it would fall under the feminist theory. This story is mainly dealing with class. Through all this conflict the woman feels over powered and domina...
This paper discusses three approaches that can be taken when studying Sociology. There are many subjects to be studied and discussed in the field of Sociology, and the approach chosen to study a particular subject is called a perspective. There are three different perspectives, and they are functionalist, conflict, and interactionist perspectives. This paper compares and contrasts these different perspectives with one another.
Traditionally men had more power and control in the home than women. Women stay in the home to care for children and the home, while men leave the house to work for money. Education was not encouraged for females because men did not find an educated girl appealing. My grandmother, who was my primary caretaker, ensured that I learned how to cook, clean, sew, and how to accept commands in hope that one day I would become a good housewife. However, living in a land where gender roles are equal made it difficult to accept the role my grandmother hoped I would take. I learned to embrace the American culture and conform to be able to fit in with friends around me. Although initially my life decisions created a lot of conflict between my family and me, I learned to conform to society by accepting society’s norms and rejecting the norms that my family
Sociology is something I didn’t know about until I took this class. This class introduced sociology to me. I learned about how society basically made boys supposed to like blue and girls supposed to like pink. Sociology is “the systematic or scientific study of human society and social behavior, from large-scale institutions and mass culture to small groups and individual interactions” (Ferris and stein 2014: p9). Sociology is not something you just learn when you are just born. You learn about sociology throughout your life. Sociology is displayed around things such as being around different environments, friends, and family. Education is a sociology idea that can examine a person’s class and schooling. The higher the education you have,
Social theories provide us with a new perspective in the social world. With new perspectives, new opinions can be made. also, they can provide answers or explain a specific social spectacle. Social theories can help clarify and predict the way the social world works. The three major sociological perspectives are functionalism, the conflict theory, and the symbolic interaction theory. Each theory is different and can help answer many questions about human behavior in a social world.
My father was a hard working man since he was born. As a teen he was foolish and didn't listen to his father, and barley finished high school. He became a agricultural worker on my grandfathers
According to the American Sociological Association, “Sociology is the study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior. Sociologists investigate the structure of groups, organizations, and societies, and how people interact within these contexts... Sociologists understand social inequality, patterns of behavior, forces for social change and resistance, and how social systems work.” Sociology has opened my eyes to many things I never really paid much attention to. There were 7 units of the course and each touched upon the most important parts of it with the best articles from great sociologists.
My father would be working 80 hour weeks at abysmal, exhausting jobs in order to give my family enough money to survive. Once I grew up I realized that children only notice what is being done directly for them, not what is being done to make to possible. For example, My mother prepared my food, read me a story before bed, and tucked me in at night, so I associated her with feeling safe and loved. All that time, however, my father was doing everything in his power to make sure I had all of the
My father was always there for me, whether I wanted him to be or not. Most of the time, as an adolescent trying to claim my independence, I saw this as a problem. Looking back I now realize it was a problem every child needs, having a loving father. As hard as I tried to fight it, my dad instilled in me the good values and work ethic to be an honest and responsible member of society. He taught me how to be a good husband. He taught me how to be a good father. He taught me how to be a man. It has been 18 years since my father’s death, and I am still learning from the memories I have of him.
People are constantly saying that science is all around us, while this may be a cliché, it is true. Sociology is one of the many sciences that can be found in everyday life. A person who is older may often say “back in my day” referring to their childhood and making a point that almost everything in society has changed since they were a child. Well, a multitude of things have changed in society; however, that is something that is going to happen with time no matter what. Some of the innumerable aspects of life that have changed are mass transit, capitalism, religion, marriage, and technology.
For my father, gratitude stood paramount to the rest. Raising two daughters in the northeastern United States, in a neighborhood that (on the surface) embodies all idealized suburbias, was radically different from his own upbringing under tin roofs in Jamaica. His entire youth was an uphill battle against poverty and learning to survive with no male role model to follow. Though he did not want my sister and I to face the same depravity, he did want to impress upon us a similar ambition. My mother, an English teacher at every grade level, believed that education was the way to fuel said ambition. A culmination of these factors yields the key to success, if we are willing to work for
Everyone who was a male in my family was kinda on the same boat when it came to acting like a man. We learned from each other the ways of manhood. But as i recall the times i came close to to those contradictory influences was out of pure curiosity. I am a curious kid by nature. I am interested in the world around, in anything and everything. So, when my cousins who were females would come around, I would engage in some of their girly activities not knowing it was frown upon for boys to do that. One event that marked a significant transition in my gender identity happened about a few months ago. Well lets say I wasn 't the most ideal figure of man. I was really quiet, I spoke as if i was whispering and I was antisocial. I would also complain a lot if things didn 't go my way. It wasn 't till that fateful night of me almost giving up volleyball, two weeks of completing over life and an influential speech from my good friend Greg Scott that i realize that all the stuff I am doing is not going to fly past in the real world. So I pledge to make a change to myself. I pledge to be stronger, talk more, be more confident and more social and here we are
The first responsibility that I think is very important is being a good example for your kids. Parents are examples for their kids whether they like it or not. My boys watch and copy everything that I do, and even if I don’t think their listening they are listening. If they see me finishing school and working a good job that’s what they will expect to do themselves because that is all that they know. Children are like sponges. I want to show my kids how to be a good person by being a good person myself. As a parent I want my children to know that they can be anything they want to be, but at the same time I am controlling their physical and moral environment so that they can be good people. I want them to be in an environment where they can develop habits of honesty, generosity, and responsibility.