Characteristics Of Nagovisi Family

Family acts as a support in many ways. Since everyone contributes to the household, the Dadi treats everyone equally and when money is asked for any important purposes, the Dadi will provide the money no matter how expensive it is. Also, Dadi mentions that the family can bear anything, can suffer any lost because they suffer together. However, if one moves out, he is alone and have to provide solutions for himself. In the family, everyone works together; the dadi and dada work and make decisions together. Children do not have to work. However, if they leave the household, the daughter-in-law will have to manage everything on her own.

In the world today, women have a say in what they want to do and things that they desire to do. Back in the day, before the 1800’s, women had to be submissive to their male counterparts and do according to what was required of them. In the end, this led to the demeaning of the woman and the concept that women were inferior to men. Even though this concept and perception changed, there have been some countries and regions of the world that have not yet recognized the equality that women deserve. Such areas do not allow women to vote, attend school, have a say in the community, and the women are at the mercy of their husbands, fathers or male superiors (Hartmann, Susan M).

The essay starts with a very simple definition of a family, accompanied by an explanation of the relationship between family structure and the strength of the link between different people forming the family in question. The introduction has been put in a simple language to provide a fluid understanding of what the reader should expect throughout the text. Literal tools like proverbs and similes have been applied. There is a clear language connection of cultural legacy and a family unit where the authors explain that legacy in the society does not determine how different ethnicities connect with the family unit. Gertsel and Sarkasian believe that deliberations made on family responsibilities tend to pay more attention to nuclear family as opposed to the general family unit. The language used here implies that the general meaning of extended family unit is ignored or in some cases misrepresented.

Contrasting this is “The Conquest of Gola”. In Gola’s (or Venus’s) society, roles are reversed. The women are in charge and running things fairly smoothly considering. It is a utopian society, with the planet and its people surviving despite countless invasion attempts by the Dextalans (or Earthlings). The men, however, are disregarded as good for only show and reproduction. While often women run societies are considered broken and unattainable, or something that doesn’t work, the Golan women have shown that this is not the case. According to the narrator of the story, “Long ago we, too, might have gone on exploring expeditions to other worlds, other universes, but for what? Are we not happy here? We who have attained the greatest of civilizations within the confines of our own silvery world…” (Evans & Stone, 98). The Golans are practically at a golden age of their world. They have advanced far past that of humanity, having generations worth of technology and knowledge to fall back on. Their society thrives to the point it isn’t much of a surprise to see their arrogance towards the Dextalans. Not only did these women show their strength in combat, they’ve driven them back long enough that only the narrator, the current ruler, remembers the invasion. Interestingly enough, working matriarchal societies isn’t fiction. According to the article titled “Gender Roles”, the Tchambali culture of New Guinea features women doing the typical work of a man, such as running their society,

Culture: In all cultures women have a set role in which they are to follow within their society. Here in the United States women are working for better gender equality and more people are coming out about who they are in the inside regardless of what gender norms they are breaking. For my third country I picked Afghanistan, in this country women are

It is a society in which the woman is in charge inside of the house while the man has more power outside. People would think of this as degrading towards women, but it is done to look after them. As a protection to women, men are forced to go outside of the house into the world that is cold and evil. They are told that they must do this everyday and bring home money to provide for their family and wife. The woman is to stay home in a safe place and take care of what she knows best. This is not mean to make women feel inferior but to make them feel safe and free from the world.

A family consists of a group of interacting individuals related by blood, marriage, cohabitation, or adoption who interdependently perform relevant functions by fulfilling expected roles. (Edelman, Kudzma, & Mandle, 2014, p. 150)

A family is seen as a group of people who are biologically or psychologically related. They connect on historical, emotional

Depending on their cultural background, many families will often have different understandings or ideas of what a family is and how it should be structured.

This joint family, like any social organization, must face problems such as acceptable division of work, relationships and specific family roles. These familial relationships are managed on the basis of a secular hierarchical principle. In fact, all Indians owe respect and obedience to the head of the family, who usually is the father or the oldest man of the family community. In The Gift of a Bride: A Tale of Anthropology, Matrimony and Murder by Nanda and Gregg, it is explained that, “females [are] placed under the perpetual guardianship of first their fathers and elder brothers, then their husbands.” (Nanda & Gregg 22) Thus, all the spending decisions, studies and profession, or marriage, are exclusively the responsibility of the father after the possible discussions with the other men of the family. Age and sex are the basic principles of this hierarchical system. The eldest sons enjoy greater unchallenged authority than their cadets. Of course men have more authority than women, but older married women have an important role within the family. In fact, the authority of a woman depends on the rank of her husband inside the group. Traditionally, the wife of the patriarch rules over domestic affairs and has considerable power over the other women in the community, especially her daughters- in-law.

According to the Dictionary of Contemporary English, a family is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, formed by a father, a mother and children. On the other

Determining family structure and dynamics as well as defining the family is a complex process. Personally, I come from a very traditional family. Much like the assumptions made by the students in the article Defining Family: Young Adults’ Perceptions of the Parent-Child Bond by Mellisa Holtzman (2008). This is what comes to mind when most people define family; a nuclear family, with married parents, and biological children. However, a family is a complex system and can take on many different forms.

     This patriarchal role of males in the Indian family allows for all the power to be placed on the father of the household. This power can be abused which I would assume happens with the children in these families. The oldest male child has the authority to boss around his other siblings, and in the death of his father he then becomes the leader of the household. This could lead to many harsh or unfair ruling by older siblings or by other members of society. This would lead for the younger sibling to have to adjust greatly as they grow into adulthood. These rules that govern Indian household are often strict and are always final. This is accepted by all.

the power of the fathers: a familial, social, ideological, and political system in which, by direct pressure -- or through tradition, law and language, customs, etiquette, education, and division of labor -- men determine

Before examining particular societies, the general notions of patriarchy must be established. Generally, women were considered inferior to men, but each facet of society provides a distinctive insight into gender roles. A fundamental difference between the two genders was that the responsibility of a man was to be a member of the public, whereas the responsibility of a woman was to be in the home. Social norms defined men as “rulers, warriors, scholars, and heads of households” (Ways of the World 59). Even if a man had little