...Nuclear Family and Extended Family Family is the most basic social unit in any society. A family is a unit that consists of biologically related people that live together in a house. There are two types of family: Nuclear family and Extended family. It is necessary to understand difference between nuclear family and extended family to explain advantages or disadvantages of them. Nuclear family is a family unit consisting of a mother and father and their children. Extended family is a family group that consists of parents, children, and other close relatives, often living in close proximity. Because of this population difference, there are some advantages or disadvantages of extended family and nuclear family. Extended family is a natural concept that is still very popular in many cultures such as Turkey. This type of family includes men and his wife, their children, spouses of children and grandchildren. Each person in these families has different positions and responsibilities. For instance, women look after children, clean their house and cook food as housewives. On the other hand, men work to earn money to provide their life conditions. In addition, in this type of family, there is a hierarchy between the each family member. Therefore, each member has to respect the eldest person of those families and this person makes every critical decision. This hierarchy prepares each member of family to real life. Members of these families can adapt to business life easily. Moreover...
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...size of their family. Parents have to consider whether it is better for their children to grow up in a large family or to grow up in a small family. Still, I believe there is no best family size. A large family and a small family both have their own advantages and disadvantages in the aspects of family’s finance and child companionship. A family financial condition is tightly related to the size of the family. The living cost for a large is surely much higher than the living cost for a small family. As the result, children in a large family would have less financial supports from their parents. In contrast, in a small family, parents can give more resources to their children. For instance, their children can receive better education, or have more opportunities to develop some costly interests, such as piano. My friend, Dave, is the only child in their family. Their parents always support him to do whatever the things he wishes to do, such as traveling aboard and developing his interest in music. On the other hand, I, growing up in a large family, do not have as many chances to do things I want as Dave do. From this example, I believe children in a small family can receive more supports from their parents than children in a large family can receive. Although children in the large family might not receive much supports from their parents, they have more companies to talk to and to play with. That is definitely a great advantage for children in a large family. They will not...
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...that ‘the extended family remains as important now as it was in the past’ (24 marks) There are different opinions regarding the importance of the extended family in modern Britain. Some sociologists such as Parsons and Wilmott and Young believe that extended families have almost disappeared completely due to them losing their functions. However some sociologists such as Charles and Wilmott say the extended family remains as important now as it was in the past, but maybe the definition has changed. Firstly, Parsons believed that the extended family was the norm during pre-industrialisation. This was because England was a kinship-based society was because the family was self-sufficient where its member’s wold work together and the older members of the family were needed for extra help with work or to look after the children. He then said that industrialisation led to decline of the extended family as it lost functions and the isolated nuclear family became the norm, suggesting the extended family is no longer as important as it was in the past. However a view that criticises this one is one from Peter Laslett, he thought that the extended family was never important in pre-industrialisation as he said only 10% of families were extended. He found this out by looking through the only records available at that point; church records. However an argument against this could be that this was influenced by the fact that life expectancy was only around 40. Therefore families were not able...
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...referred for further evaluation to publicly funded hospitals within the Harris County Hospital District, specifically, Ben Taub General Hospital and Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital several times a day to reassess operations and accommodate the fluid situation. As we seek lessons from the evacuation of Hurricane Katrina, it is imperative that communications and disaster plans account for the specific obstacles run into by urban, minority communities. There work provides an opportunity to listen to the voices of the evacuees themselves. These voices lead us to believe that removing the obstacles of shelter and transportation will be insufficient to ensure safety in future disasters. Policies must additionally address the important influence of extended families and social networks through better community-based communication and preparation strategies. By September 4, nearly 500 evacuees had been flown to Illinois, and over the following two weeks more than 6000 evacuated individuals were estimated to have arrived on their own, most inhabiting in the Chicago area. In response, the city of Chicago work together with the American Red Cross, the United Way, and the Salvation Army to provide housing and...
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...and necessity is personified in Shen Te and Shui Ta. Shen Te, the good woman of Setzuan, is instinctively kind hearted and incapable of refusing to help anyone in need. In the beginning of the play, despite her poverty she gives up her client for the night in order to board the three Gods that need a place to stay. As a reward for her kindness, the Gods give Shen Te one thousand silver dollars “Isn't it true she might do better if she had more money?" (Brecht 1941) and she uses the money to buy a tobacco shop. She is immediately assailed by some of the townspeople for help, beginning with Mrs. Shin the previous owner of the tobacco shop and then by the elderly couple (who had first boarded her when she arrived in Setzuan) and their extended family who move into the shop. Being overwhelmed, Shen Te withdraws and Shui Ta enters. Shui Ta is able to impose his authority on the parasites that descended upon the tobacco shop in a way that Shen Te could not, “You won’t find Miss Shen Te. She has suspended her hospitable activity for an unlimited period. There are too many of you. She asked me to say: this is a tobacco shop, not a gold mine” (Brecht, 1941). He prepares the shop for business, negotiates an appropriate price for the...
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...characteristics of a successful person are; you can see it in movies and TV. The modern society today people are told exactly what to do from how they should look to what they should drive. It is nearly impossible for one to avoid this media propaganda in day-to-day life. Every day that we wake up to go to work or school media and corporate advertisements become a part of our daily life. It has become a constant influence and brainwashing in daily life. As we look at our society and culture as a whole, we see that violence does exist in vast amounts. The problem of violence is compounded by the constant saturation that media coverage often provides. The media creates an almost artificial world for young people who do not have a single family member or extended family member to provide any small measure of love and kindness towards them. We need to create an environment in which parents and child can easily live and play together, so we can draw their attention away from the enticing entertainment. If we find that it is often the latch-key children whose parents work that more quickly turn to violence, then can we create programs to keep these children otherwise occupied?...
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...During the holidays, many people shop for their dinners on a budget. When feeding extended family members, the money gets tight. Cutting coupons and buying generic brands are a couple of ways that people have been saving money, year round. I have a few more tips for those who are shopping on a budget this holiday season! First off, make a rough head count of the people you will be feeding, always count on a few more people then your original number, just in case. You always want to make sure you have more than enough food, people will love to take home leftovers! Next, you'll want to make a menu ahead of time, before going to the supermarket. This will help you only buy the things you need, not the things that look good while shopping. After you're done making your lists, you should take all of the ads from the supermarkets close to you and compare prices, also some stores might have special deals the week of the holiday with special coupons for free items in their store. The easiest way to save money during the holidays is to cut coupons on items that you need, you can find coupons in the Sunday newspaper or online. Make sure to check your store's coupon policy to see if they accept competitor coupons and/or double manufacturer's coupons, those stores seem to give the customer the best deals. Once you cut your coupons, select a date to go shopping, bring re-usable shopping bags, most stores give you a discount for using your own bags. Your list and your coupons should...
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...Advocacy. National and international public and social policies. • Discuss past and current attitudes towards people with intellectual disability • Promote positive attitudes towards people with intellectual disability • Analyse the concept of intellectual disability in terms of its definition, classification and manifestations. Unit 2 Models of Service Provision • Outline models of living that exist for people with an intellectual disability and their families throughout their lifespan, to include: Home Centre-based residential Community-based homes Independent and semi-independent living L’arche/Camphill Communities Respite/ Breakaway • Identify a range of specific services that are available to people with intellectual disability in the following: Education Training The Workplace Retirement • Outline current approaches towards developing quality in the provision of services for people with intellectual disability and their family, to include standards and quality assurance. Unit 3 Holistic Care • Outline the range of physical, social, emotional, psychological and spiritual needs of people with intellectual disability • Recognise the effects...
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... | |RACIAL/ETHNIC DIFFERENCES in EXTENDED FAMILIES | “Racial/Ethnic Differences in Extended Families” is an article review of existing interpretive sociology research. Interpretive Sociology research using existing sources is the type of research involved in this article. A symbolic-interaction approach was given and qualitative data was used in discovering the subjective sense people make of this/their world. The article proves that culture sticks with a person and/or group for a lifetime and through generations. It directly relates to the non-materialistic part of culture and the beliefs and values of each group. The main concept of the article is to show that different racial/ethnic groups have different types of extended families. The Asian-Americans show that their culture values responsibility. This also shows that families remain one of the most important aspects in their society; to them being a family member is usually what they identify with as the master status. Taking the elderly into their homes and watching over and taking care of them can be classified as one of their norms of everyday life. They don’t think of nursing homes as an option because they are accustomed to taking them in, instead. African-Americans, on the other hand, don’t show much value placed in family due to the high rate of single motherhood. This can represent...
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...Running head: PERSONAL HERITAGE ASSESSMENT AND ITS USEFULNESS Personal heritage assessment and its usefulness April 15, 2012 Personal heritage assessment and its usefulness INTRODUCTION: In this paper, the writer will focus on the usefulness of applying a heritage assessment in evaluating the needs of person as a whole, three different family’s opinions on health maintenance, health protection and health restoration. Also this paper will identify health traditions as regards to cultural heritage of the writer, then how the three families interviewed in this paper follow their customs and how important their traditions and practices are to them. Heritage can be described as the degree of which one’s lifestyle reflects his/her tribal culture. Cultural heritage exist in a continuum and a person can possess values both the traditional –living within the norms of the traditional culture and modern-living outside norms of the tradition. Spector (2004) The usefulness of the applying heritage assessment in evaluating of the needs of the whole person is outlined as follows; EFFECTIVE CARE: With the knowledge and application of heritage assessment patient will derive satisfaction and positive outcome in health will be achieved. RESPECTFUL CARE: Taking into consideration the values, preferences, n the expressed needs of the patient are met. CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE: By applying heritage assessment certain behaviors, attitudes, and policies that are...
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...the culture of Nigerians and Americans. Nigerian culture has much in common with American culture. The things that I will focus on are: language, religion, family values, mannerisms, and economic relationships. In Nigeria, English is the official language. It is widely used for education, business transactions and for official purposes. English as a first language, however, remains an exclusive preserve of a small minority of the country's urban elite, and is not spoken at all in some rural areas. Many religions are followed in Nigeria. The constitution guarantees religious freedom. Christians predominantly live in the south of the country, whereas Muslims live predominantly in the north. Native religions in which people believe in deities, spirits and ancestor worship, are spread throughout the country. Many Muslims and Christians may also intertwine their beliefs with more unorthodox indigenous ones. The major Christian celebrations of Christmas and Easter are recognized as national holidays. Muslims observe Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting, and the two Eids. Working hours in the north often vary from those in the south so that Muslims do not work on their holy day, which is Friday. Family relationships are guided by hierarchy and seniority. Social standing and recognition is achieved through extended families. A family's honor is influenced by the...
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...living in Maine, because “Just as in Key West, one job will never be enough” (Page 60). Soon after finding two jobs, first one was working for a nursing home on the weekends and on weekdays she was going to be working as a maid for Merry Maids. “This is the friendliest and best paying maid service I have encountered- $6.65 an hour, though as a punishment this will drop to $6 for two weeks if I fail to show up for a day” (Page 61). After working for Merry Maids for a little bit, she got to know her co-workers. Now unlike Florida and how most of her co-workers were struggling to find a place to live or already struggling with where they were at, in Maine that wasn’t quite the problem. “Almost everyone is embedded in extended families or families artificially extended with house-mates. Pauline, the oldest of us, owns her own home, but she sleeps on the living room sofa, while her four grown children and three grandchildren fill up the bedrooms” (Page 79). Although her co-workers are not homeless or “sleeping in a car, there are signs, even at the beginning, of real difficulty if not actual misery. Half-smoked...
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...Kurt Vonnegut Vonnegut’s readers will often find themselves misled or confused. His style of writing is organized randomness from his cynical point of view. In A Man Without A Country, Vonnegut shows the ugly truth about our government and his views on how it doesn’t work. Vonnegut’s perspective of family is also exceptionally candid. He is able to tie family life and values into politics. As a reader it is very hard to make out Vonnegut’s meaning because of his enormous amount of satire. Vonnegut’s strong beliefs in government and politics leave you wondering his true feelings about our government. In Vonnegut’s words, “George Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka Christians, and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or PPs, the medical term for smart, personable people who have no consciences.” When Vonnegut says this he’s trying to show just how pathetic our government truly is. He sees the government as being such a big joke that it would make a fascinating reality television show. Anyone who watches reality Television shows can see just how impractical they are and how dumb people can become. He also explains within his words that average people who were C-students are running the government. It’s obvious that he feels as if the people given power and supremacy should not be elected to make the decisions for what is right and what is wrong within our country...
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...Non-Parental Child Care Tammy LeStourgeon SOC312: Child Family & Society Instructor: Rebekah Clark October 8, 2012 In today’s society, it has become more and more difficult for a family to live comfortably and enjoy the even the most essential necessities of life on the income of one family member. In most households today we find a dual family income which has made the operation of non-parental child care increasingly more common. Non-parental child care, as referred to in our text, is any care given to a child or children by any individual other than the parent(s) during which time of the day both parents are absent. There are many way within which parents provide care for their child. Non-parental child care can be in the fashion of in-home care by a nanny or babysitter, a family member or friend caregiver, or a professional day-care center. Each of these non-parental caregivers, as with the parent, is equally responsible for positively affecting the child cognitively, psychologically and socially. The setting for a child might be in-home care by either a nanny or a babysitter. This care would be at the child’s home wherein the child is most comfortable. The individual caring for the child may be that of a nanny or a babysitter. During the initial years of life, the child will be forming the attachment and developmental relationships that are vital to his/her future. If successful, the child will also create such a relationship with...
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...The nuclear family was commonly seen in many countries of the world due to its practicality and replaced the extended family in most societies. The nuclear family is defined by George Peter Murdock as a married male and female couple raising one or more children in one household. This structure became the norm in modern society as it fulfils Murdock’s 4 functions of the family: Sexual; helps maintain a healthy and stable relationship between the parents, Reproductive; to continue the population and produce workers for society, Economic; to support the family by working in society and sharing roles between the man and woman, Education; to serve as a source of primary socialisation for children so that they may function properly in society. Sociobiologists believe that our behaviour is due to biological instincts. The nuclear family proved that it worked so was continued to be used as it was seen crucial to the survival of our species and zoologist, Desmond Morris mentioned that ‘Most successful cultures use the nuclear family’. The ‘cereal packet family’ is a term given by Edmund Leech in 1967 when he recognised the power of the image of the nuclear family. It’s a socially constructed model laden with assumptions of how families ought to be. Such an image creates a normalised social construction of what a family should look like. However, many other family structures are being used which suggests that the nuclear family is not the norm. For example, the Kibbutz lived in an extended...
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