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Family and society have come across many changes during our history. Every change that occurred has affected what many people would call the "Benchmark Family" (Scanzoni #7). This is considered the perfect family or the norm. The Family would consist of the husband that is the breadwinner and the wife who is responsible for raising the children, and taking care of the home (Scanzoni #4). Society has changed dramatically from the 19th century. These changes in turn have affected Family. Many factors through the years have been responsible for these changes. Feminism is a tremendous factor that is still having its effect on family and society today. Another factor is employment. Women in the workplace have changed family structure

Poverty tends to have an effect on families as well, sometimes individuals cannot support their families economically, because there are less employment opportunities where individuals can thrive in impoverished environments. For an individual to have a decent job to support his or her family, they tend to have to look outside of their communities, and usually that brings in many other factors into play. Individuals with children have a

Many people tend to view the family as separate from society. They think all family problems can be solved by dealing only with the family. They fail to realize that the family is part of society and that society influences family life. Such social problems as drugs, poor housing, and unemployment directly affect family life.

Using material from Item A and elsewhere assess sociological explanations of the nature and extent of family diversity today. Family diversity is the idea that there are a range of different family types, rather than a single dominant one like the nuclear family. It is associated with the post-modernists idea that

Social class is defined as a system of stratification based on access to such resources as wealth, property, power and prestige (186). The social class system is typically passed down from the parent to the child. Our textbook quotes, “Although children tend to “inherit” the social class of their parents, during the course of a lifetime they can move up or down levels in the strata” (186). Therefore, this system is not affected by race, ethnicity, gender or age. However, social class may overlap depending on specific variables. Personally, my family’s social class status would be classified as the middle class. The middle class is composed of primarily “white collar” workers with a broad range of education and income; and make up about 30 percent of the U.S. population (188). Throughout this essay, I will distinguish how my social class has impacted my childhood, deviance and education.

Stereotypes and the Changing Family The configuration of a family is always fluctuating and deviates from culture to culture. The roles and behavior in a Hispanic family may strongly differ from a Caucasian family, and a Caucasian family from a Chinese family. Regardless of the culture to which a family belongs, every culture has had or currently has stereotypes, such as gender roles. In the mid 1900’s, an “ideal” Caucasian American family would have had a wife who remains home throughout the day and takes care of the house, a working father, and two to three children. The father would have the final word on everything; in other words he would possess ultimate authority, with the mother and children not getting much say in any decisions. In the recent decades, however, women have secured jobs, most men share authority with the mother, and parents listen to their children. Today, gender roles are slowly receding, children have the opportunity to decide their future, and parents are becoming more lenient with their children.

In today’s modern society, there is no more “normal” families. Normal can no longer be defined because what we use to see as a typical family of a mom, dad, and kids is not the kind of family that most kids are being raised in. Today we have a variety of functioning families such as two same sex parents, and minority families. According to our textbook, how a particular family functions will depend on several variables. Starting with the culture in which the family originated from, the subgroup of that culture, the individual characteristics of family members, how the family adapts to stress, and how the family functions within their culture.

Families over the course of life face hardships and changes as a natural and predictable aspect of family life.

Diversity issues that affect the family dynamics are gender, race, and economic status. In the older generations such as my grandparents women took a quieter role in the family. Both of my grandmothers followed the rules that my grandfather’s/step-grandfather set. However the next generation such as my mother was a force to be reckoned with. She did not follow rules that her husband or society set, she did things her way. I myself am like my mother and believe that women have a say in what they want not just out of their lives but also their relationships.

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Class or socioeconomic level is typically defined as social sets, where each particular group share similar or the same resources, in terms of economical, property, and status (Phillips, 2012). Therefore, it tends to be a rank in accordance to wealth, power, and income, meaning the more you have of each

Overall, in society's class lifestyle also affects how children are raised for example, a working class person is more likely to raise their child to be working class and middle class children are more likely to be raised to be middle class. For example, including being a doctor or even

The ideal family has changed considerably throughout time changing attitudes towards gender and roles and expectations, as well as Society 's is gradual acceptance of homosexuality has seen radical changes in what is considered an ideal family. Shifting views in what is considered an ideal family shows the family is a form of ideology rather than simply a descriptive concept.

It is my belief that recognizing any family structure or definition is important, as the traditional version may be skewed in so many ways, without knowing or recognizing the “family” that people we run across may come from. We can also learn from other family definitions to build upon our own themes, rules, and beliefs. Adding stigma and prejudice toward families different from our own not only alienate the members, but can add unnecessary stress upon that family system. Stress in any family system can be seen as either an adaptation potential or a negative force. Many effects on the

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