What should a Family look like? Our very own families and the society around us have been partially responsible for shaping our beliefs about what does and doesn 't constitute as a family. In addition, religious and educational institutions, as well as our race and gender, have contributed to our opinions regarding the contemporary American family. However, when we sit down on the couch to entertain ourselves with television or movies, we absorb images, whether consciously or not, which tell us what a family should look like. A lot of what we watch on a daily basis portrays the development of characters and displays how greater social forces shape who they have become. To help explain this, C. Wright Mills uses a term called the sociological
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Whether if it’s struggles with their teenage children, or relationship issues between the marriages. This show is relatively comical and makes it seem like they are living life quite well-off, contrary to the typical American. The families occasionally travel, meaning they have leisure time and the money to do so. For example, in an episode Claire and her husband, Phil, go on a camping trip so that her husband can enjoy time with his friends. When they were going to fly back home they were offered for one of them to take a first class seat in the plane. Claire gladly accepted, not knowing that the high class woman sitting next to her would be stuck up and rude. The high-class woman sitting next to Claire is displayed as someone who has racist attitudes toward her Latino workers at her house and was somewhat ignorant. Even though the woman seemed to have a lot of money because she was ordering wine, to the viewers of this episode it must have made middle class seem like the ideal life. Although Claire doesn’t have money to fly first-class she at least had a good behavior and attitude. Watching this episode made me grateful for not having access to everything I want in life. It made me think that if I was able to have the money to do whatever, whenever I wanted, I would be a very inconsiderate rude person, without any sort of
Whether if it’s struggles with their teenage children, or relationship issues between the marriages. This show is relatively comical and makes it seem like they are living life quite well-off, contrary to the typical American. The families occasionally travel, meaning they have leisure time and the money to do so. For example, in an episode Claire and her husband, Phil, go on a camping trip so that her husband can enjoy time with his friends. When they were going to fly back home they were offered for one of them to take a first class seat in the plane. Claire gladly accepted, not knowing that the high class woman sitting next to her would be stuck up and rude. The high-class woman sitting next to Claire is displayed as someone who has racist attitudes toward her Latino workers at her house and was somewhat ignorant. Even though the woman seemed to have a lot of money because she was ordering wine, to the viewers of this episode it must have made middle class seem like the ideal life. Although Claire doesn’t have money to fly first-class she at least had a good behavior and attitude. Watching this episode made me grateful for not having access to everything I want in life. It made me think that if I was able to have the money to do whatever, whenever I wanted, I would be a very inconsiderate rude person, without any sort of