Families in sociology
Family is considered the most important agent in socialization, to be able to maintain stability in society and good mental health of individuals, our families four key functions are to provide social status, economic solidly, psychological support, yield socialization, and maintain sexual regulations. Families bestow culture values, norms, languages, and attitude along with our belief systems. Family is the primary source for our social support with; intimacy and championship our family can showing us how to love, create understanding, build security, and construct acceptance.
The middle and upper-middle American families have been experiencing dramatic changes caused by; a reoccurring collapse of the economy dating back to the great depression in the 1930’s. The collapse of our economy has caused rapid unemployment rates, causing financial instability. Consequently, this financial instability is resulting in lost assets, mortgage foreclosures, and the uncontrolled mitigation of finances. The hardship of our failing economy is causing stress, tension, and arguments amongst family members. This failing economy can be a big stem of most domestic violence happening to woman. Families are seeking comfort and friendship from outside sources rather than close relatives. In order to maintain finances women are seeking job inspiring men to take more roles at home by taking care of the children and doing chores.
There are many different types marriages ill start with monogamy, the practice of being married to one person, typically through the till death do us part. polygamy it’s the practice of one person marrying two or more of the opposite sex, if one man wanted to marry two or more women we would call that polygyny the opposite of this is polyandry where one woman would marry more than two men, I would personally choose this one, maybe I would be able to get more done. If someone wanted to marry into their own race, class, ethnicity or social group we would call this endogamy the opposite of this is exogamy. Family structures that share male and female authority equally are called egalitarian family. A family structure with the eldest male in charge is a patriarchal family and the opposite of that is matriarchal. When a family moves away and lives alone from their parents it is called neolocal. Patrilocal residence happens when the husband’s family lives with you, or in the same community the opposite of this is matrilocal.
Diversity is taking over our family norm, the typical “mom, dad” roll where mom stayed home 24/7, cooked five course meals with desert, she would wash and dry clothes, in addition to putting them all away in one day, which is impressive I would kill for time like that right now, the traditional house wife was the nurse when her husband or little ones got sick, the house wife life was very demanding including being very repetitive. While dads job was to conform to every day new arising industries learn new job requirements to make those big bucks to put a roof over everyone’s head, he would supply groceries for their home, makes sure there was running water and everyone had clothes. Times are changing, our course text book perfectly describes what those changes are;
“a wider variety of family living arrangements has become the norm. Ac- cording to the sociologist Philip Cohen (2014), three major factors have contributed to this dramatic change in fam- ily structure in the United States: (1) a decline in marriage rates; (2) a rise in the number of women who are employed in the paid workforce, and (3) a shift from the majority living in a nuclear family to a wider variety of living arrangements, such as blended families, cohabitation, and more-extensive patterns of remarriage.” (2017)
This is an extremely negative thing for me because I feel like everyone should have more of the traditional family household also known as the nuclear family.
. Woman for many years have been fighting for equality to men, before world war II us ladies didn’t even have the right to vote, it wasn’t until men needed us to fight alongside them in war, yup that’s right ladies they asked us for help. I couldn’t believe it either until, I read this online article that states
“The roots of the campaign for women’s rights date back to the nineteenth century. The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 condemned the hardships and biases experienced by women in American society. The convention’s chief concern was to achieve voting rights, or suffrage, for women. Leaders such as Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony campaigned persistently for women’s suffrage. They also pressed for equality in other areas, including politics, religion, and the workforce.” (2017)
. because these strong women pushed for us to have equal rights they’ve allowed us to come such a long way and now the work load is able to be split 50/50 in an ever-changing economy that will going to constantly affect us for many years to come, we are able to create our own careers and pursue even more education, we can teach our children more, and even if you are a girl you can still have the drive, knowledge, and power to do virtually anything you can put your mind too. Susan b. Anthony was one of the sharpest woman she stood tuff along woman’s sides with perseverance she got exactly what she wanted for us woman. One of my favorite quotes that reminds me of Susan b. Anthony is “woman who behave rarely make history” (unknown) if she wouldn’t have stood by our sides I can only imagine how miserable it would be for a woman who wants to venture out and take on the work load with the husband to be a team player financially.
Apryl Ceja
References
Kendall, D. (2017). Sociology in our times. 11th edition [South University]. Boston, Massachusetts: Cengage learning. Retrieved from https://digitalbookshelf.southuniversity.edu/#/books/9781305856301/cfi/0!/4/4@0.00:25.4
Loveday,V. (2017). Feminism & the Woman’s Rights. Movement. Feminism & the Woman’s Rights Movement, 1. Retrieved from http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.southuniversity.libproxy.edmc.edu/eds/detail/detail?vid=5&sid=bcdfa17a-f542-4a19-8777-fb32997476c4%40sessionmgr120&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#AN=17989370&db=pwh.