Iii. Family History. The Two Groups Of People That I Focus

Reflect on the similarities and differences between you, your parents, and your grandparents in regard to various stratification variables such as education, religion, income, occupation, area of residence, consumption patterns, and political participation.

Robert L. Daniel, author of, American Women in the Twentieth Century, explains that women were being recruited to work in various jobs (122). Single women, ones that did not hold responsibilities to a husband or family were employed first and women that had families were taken only as a last resort (Daniel 123). Daniel further explains, "The nation's need permitted an expansion of women's economic role without it being perceived as a feminist threat" (123). What women could offer was now found as valuable and useful. The public opinion of women made a drastic turn around from their previous attitudes. The government and the media no longer looked down upon women for entering the work force, but gave much encouragement (Chafe, 134). In magazines such as "Lifetime" there were even advertisements promoting women to work.

The article Family and Social Memory: Why History Matters mentioned the concept of the nuclear family. The ideal white-picket fenced family, with a mother, father and children who happily live together in privacy. It was during the postwar era when technological discoveries were rapid and mind-blowing, an era where hope was renewed and the ideal family was remodeled. It involved a father being the head of the house, and the mother being the primary caretaker. It was this notion that reigned as the ideal family for a long period of time. However, I find this stereotype to be rather poisonous because, as the article also mentioned, soon the media uncovered the dark realities behind the nuclear family. During the post-war era, abuse and sexism

Following World War II, the overall percentage of women in the workforce fell to 28 percent, with women choosing to either, stay at home and raise their families, or they were laid off so that the positions were open to the returning veterans. The dominant attitude was that women needed to return to their homes and raise their children, but the seed had been planted in women’s minds that there was a possibility of paid employment outside of the home. Those women that worked during the war opened the door, allowing the following generations of women to enter the industrial workforce and become

Rarely did any ever make it into college, as higher education was generally only male accepting. With this setback, and the social stereotype that women are weak and need to be protected, limited them to working at home as a housewife, or completing “feminine” job for very little pay. By the 1900’s, these jobs included being teachers, nurses, housekeepers, and more. Overall, women relied on husbands

Also, women found it very difficult to get jobs during this period because they were married and most employers didn’t want married women, so this resulted in a drastic turnover of domestic jobs. Later, women were allowed to work in some certain sectors of the economy and some did white collar jobs but not all due to race and class. The white women did most the white-collar jobs and the blue-collar jobs were left for the black society and immigrants. At the same time, gender inequality continued; despite the fact that they could do the professional jobs the pay was still very unequal. “They received, on average, only two-thirds of the salaries offered to men”(Srigley, 2005, pg.153). Immigrants and blacks did domestic jobs and left them from time to time as soon as their wages and working conditions worsened. Some of the married women could change their marital status because of their children; so garment industry and other domestic services employed them with minimum wages. In the US “Cleaning jobs, factory jobs and clerical jobs now filled by women” (Crosby, 2007). Women in the US around the depression era also did menial jobs like those in Canada. Education was another barrier in the labour market for women especially the blacks and immigrants. The little amount of women who were privileged to gain education were the

The educational system in Nepal is different in the United States in many aspects. One of the aspects involves the structure of the education system. Nepali education is similar to Indian education which originally was adopted from the

History isn’t always the glamorous and fast paced events like war, but sometimes it's just explaining things the average Joe might experience during his time on the Earth. This paper will not have any war or conflicts that are life or death for the delicate system of a community, but it's history nonetheless. The History of my family and how it connects to bring us decades later to where we are today.

Georgian social class system changed multiple times in the last 50 years. My family witnessed and was affected by all the changes. Being born in the USSR in the 70s, my parents were members of the soviet proletariat class. My mother was born in a family of a factory worker and a school teacher. My grandfather got high school education and my grandmother finished college with a degree in education. They were from the same village and decided to move to Tbilisi - a big industrial city to build a better future for their children. They lived in one of many public apartment blocks that Soviet government provided to the workers. Small portion of their wages were deducted each month to pay off the apartment. My father, a paternal orphan since three was raised by his grandmother. His mother worked two shifts as a nurse at a hospital to provide for her two children. Although government provided pension and some benefits, such as free

The two families that I chose for this assignment are the Poteats’ and the Reitans’ because they each embody a different type of sense making. There are three different types of sense-making, there is the family-unit sense-making which I will explain in detail later, there is the Individual sense-making which I will also explain further in detail later, and there is the incomplete sense-making.

The role of the people in family basically stayed the same for most of the generations with a little change in the later generations. Earlier the males were the only ones that worked in the family and the wife stayed at home and took care of the house and

In her book The Unfinished Revolution, Kathleen Gerson argues that today, family pathways are more important than family structure. In this context, family structure refers to the organization of a family, and the way that it has been changing as a result of the gender revolution. For example, some nontraditional family structures that are explored in the book include double parent families with both parents earning, single parent families (mostly single mothers), and families with same-sex parents. Gerson argues that while family structures are not negligible, it is family pathways that are more important for the children of the gender revolution. That is to say, the children value the dynamics of their family more than the structure. They are more concerned about how well their parents are able to provide them with the necessary emotional and financial support than they are about how well their families follow a norm. For them, it is more about feeling like they’re part of a family rather than just physically being in one. Gerson emphasizes this when she explains that the people she interviewed “focused on the long-term consequences of parental choices, not on the specific form or type of home these choices produced at any one moment in time.” One important implication of this argument is the way in which the children of the gender revolution imagine their own romantic relationships unfolding. Even there, they prioritize a feeling rather than a format. For example, one

Institutionalized ideas of a successful lifestyle have been perpetuated in society throughout time. Each generation faces newly refined perimeters of righteous behaviors that have been affected by progressive ideas, technological advancements, and traditional beliefs. These components and more, play a role in creating a public image of a family structure. Essentially, families are key representatives of society. The posterchild family structure of society depicts values held by a generation, and promoted throughout the means of mass marketing during that time. Every citizen is considered to be held accountable to the societal standards of correct human behavior and ideology. These standards have an impact on freedom, marriage, work, education and children. My family structure is grass rooted in Punjab, India. The dominant religion, political structure, public institution, and societal ideology have differences and similarities with those of America’s.

The home of the tallest mountain, the birthplace of Gautam Buddha and the only country without a square flag is where I come from also know as Nepal. I was born at Koshi Hospital in an urban area in Biratnagar, Nepal on July 08, 1997. During the 1990’s Nepal was in Demographic Transition Stage 2 also known as Agriculture Revolution.The Birth rate is still high and so is the Infant Mortality rate but the Death rate began to fall because, in this time period, folks aren’t moving around anymore instead they take care of the crops and live in the houses with a stable source of food. The average fertility in Stage 2 is over 5 but this model doesn’t fit our family because I don’t have any siblings and am an only child. My parents faced many difficulties and went through many hardships growing in a big family , so my parents wanted to have only one child but maybe they would have had more kids if they continued farming and living in the rural areas of Nepal but because both of my grandparents sent both of my parents to school to get an education which I I believe impacted on their decision on how many kids they wanted. It was specially rare to see girls attending school and getting education during this time because girls were taught how to cook and clean rather than being sent to school because child marriage was very common and girls were prepared at a young age to become a good housewife but my grandparents were very supportive of my mother when she asked to attend school which

Nepal’s present is reflective of its history. Within the past few years, the country has been in a state of disarray because its history has been fraught with political turmoil. As a whole, Nepal is a severely underdeveloped country. Throughout its history, Nepal has had little interaction with the outside world. The lack of political stability throughout its history accounts for many of the reasons of why Nepal is the way it is.