My Family Sociology

Each and every family is unique in their own way. Families consist of different races that may practice different religions, a conflictive understanding of gender roles, and a differing socioeconomic status. They are often constructed of mothers, fathers, and siblings with extended families of aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents. Families are a group of individuals who can be bound by the relation of blood, marriage, legal relations, emotional ties or biological connections(Coontz 36). Through the course of life, different families face different social and economical obstacles that can often hinder one’s experience or help them grow depending on the situation. My family has been shaped by many ideologies that had we not experienced, we …show more content…
Attending Catholic church weekly and attending Catholic school daily, she was very active in religious practices. In most religious practices, there is still a higher chance for individuals to live in a homemaker-breadwinner arrangement versus those who are unreligious.(Cohen:172) Amy is an example of the homemaker-breadwinner concept in terms of religion because the two times Amy was married, her husbands were the breadwinners of the family and she as the wife, was the homemaker providing essentials for the children as well as meals and a clean home. When interviewing Amy, she discussed how having children out of wedlock even though she married the child’s father, was extremely hard on her family relationships and church ties because premarital sex within the catholic religion is forbidden. Having two separate marriages outcasted her from the church within the catholic religion because divorce is not condoned. Once you have been divorced within the catholic church and under the catholic religion you are not allowed to marry again in the catholic church. Amy was upset because of the trials and tribulations she was facing through our family and the church, and decided to convert to christianity. Amy decided that the hardships she was facing in her life and as an individual did not concern anyone else and no longer wanted to practice the Catholic religion. Amy wanted a fresh start and when her first husband Ross was offered a job in Portland Oregon she thought there was no better place to start over. She raised my brothers and I as Christians in a Christian household attending church on Sunday’s at a local church in Vancouver where she continued to practice the homemaker-breadwinner role until she had to start a career of her own and pursue her an