Monolithic Family Analysis

Modern family has been a culturally defining television series. The episode that I watched was titled “Thunk in the Trunk”. In the beginning of the episode, Claire makes it known that she was taking over her father’s company and she is now the boss. Claire also made a statement in the beginning of the episode that she “now feels like a powerful white man” and she loves it. In the Baca Zinn article there were a list of themes that showed how conventional notions of the family have been transformed. The themes have made countless steps in challenging the myth of the “monolithic family” in which has lifted up the nuclear family with a breadwinner husband and a full time wife and mother as the only legitimate family form”(Zinn 18). In the modern family …show more content…
Eventually, Claire breaks down because she was tired of pretending to be a boss when in actuality she had no idea. Mean, while I noticed that Jay became jealous of his wife, being on the cut out in the grocery store and seeing that the cut out was getting a lot of attention from men. The men became obsessive and began taking pictures with the cut out. Which led Jay to go steal the cutout. What I noticed about Cam and Mitch were they are a homosexual couple with a little daughter they adopted. In the article “What is the family? Is it universal?” by Gittins she states that “ marriage involves some form of status passage and public avowal of recognizing other(s) as of particular importance in one way or another yet it does not occur universally between two people, nor between two people of the opposite sex nor is it always viewed as linked to reproduction”(Gittins 3). It doesn’t take a man and a woman specifically to raise a child as long as the parents have some good characteristics such as being supportive, loving and nurturing why not give them options to raise a