Extended family

differs from another religion in many different aspects, but one in particular is family. Through the Christian faith, they believe in God and the Bible is the word. The Bible says a family should consist of one man, one woman, and their children. God says he hates divorce and that the man and women are responsible for keeping the family together. Infidelity is a sin. The husband should love his wife and provide for his family and she should respect him and submit. The man is the leader in the…

Family can be described by many different concepts from a sociological perspective. Since no two families are equally the same, it tends to be tricky applying some notions learned in class towards your individual family. When analyzing my family from a sociological perspective, there were five concepts that best associates to what defines my family. These five concepts are identifying with a social class, gender roles learned within the family, concerted cultivation childhood, parents’ time with…

The traditional family structure of two parents and their children living in a home was a short lived experience for me during my childhood. The majority of my childhood I lived in a single parent household with my biological mother and older half-brother. Although my mother and father were married for 16 years there were a few times, off and on, during my early childhood that my biological father also lived in the home with us for short periods of time. I have recollection of my mother having…

Family Structures in Afghanistan Family is what defines the culture of Afghanistan, even opposing tribes choose to have their way of life revolve around familial values. The structure consists of the direct and the extended family, with the brides’ side being the primary source of most members with respective roles, and values that shape the family. Families in Afghanistan act as major providers in supporting everyone’s needs, whether it be financially or emotionally. A typical family…

Family Interview and Genogram I chose to interview Inmaculada “Alex” DeFeo (2015). She is the source of much of the information. I based assessments on my analysis of her explained life. Detailed is given to her age and familial relations. The strength perspective used in order to highlight strengths in how overcoming or living with situations, statuses, and results of events. Individual and family patterns, concern, and influences regarding them aimed are touched upon. Family Members…

subcategories, extended family and larger systems. These two subcategories will give you an idea about how the family interacts with individuals outside of their own nuclear family. Extended family. An extended goes beyond the nuclear family. It may include cousins, grandparents, uncles, aunts, foster children, etc. Social media is a big part of this world today, and it helps many people stay in contact with their family. The family keeps in touch over Facebook with their extended…

cherish my family, my education, my friends, and that I will never judge someone because of a first impression. These are just a few values that being a military child has given me, and I know that…

Lareau’s research in “Unequal Childhoods” is a study that is focused on parenting styles between the middle-class families and the working-class families using, interviews and observations. While following these 12 families to everything they do, she argued that social class leads to different parenting style and different life experience and outcomes for the middle-class kids and working class kids. Lareau's findings suggested, that class play a significant role in shaping parenting patterns…

Yourself (Conley, 2013, p. 457), extended family is the “kin networks that extend outside or beyond the nuclear family”. In the case of Hidden America: Children of the Mountains (2009), extended family is a type of family in where relatives (aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins) as well as parents and their children live in the same house. Most of the families seen in the film were extended families in which the head of the house was the mother of the family. In these cases, a father figure…

of the American family. The idea of what is a "traditional family" is a hard concept to define and changes from time to time based on the and needs of society over the years. Broad generalizations do not account for this factor and too often play upon our worst fears by suggesting that there has been a decline of the American family and its values. First, there are different families. A nuclear or extended family depends on the time. For example, the concept of a nuclear family, a father,…