Interpersonal Relationship With My Family

Families, as units, are extremely complex and vary drastically from one another. A person might be under the impression that his or her own family is nothing special, especially if they are accustomed to their family’s routines. After analyzing my own family through the sociological lenses of an assortment of scholars, it is now clear that it is not as simple as it seems. Sociologically analyzing my family through the divorces that have occurred in my life makes it clear that divorce can have an impact on a variety of family dynamics, such as my parents and their jobs and domestic duties, the amount of involvement they have with their friends and family, as well as my financial dependence on my parents.

The majority of my family comes from Africa and has been very divided since I was born so that probably really affects the way I am now. Such as how parents put a very strong emphasizes on education, religion, and other more traditional things which can be both good and bad. For example, sometimes when I tell my mother my feeling towards something she finds it disrespectful that I would even bring it up if it goes against her views. Probably due to her belief that you must respect your elders, and to her me having an opinoun contrary to her is disrespectful. I thinik thats the reason why I have problems being vulnerable emotionally with others, which is what i’ve been trying to work on changing. I’ve for the most part had the same friends

Family members heavily influence our perspectives. From the time we are born our parents begin teaching us beliefs and values that are “right” in their eyes. Amy Tan, the author of “Two Kinds” talks about how it was living with a strict, traditional mother. In chunk 6, paragraph 67 Amy’s mother states “‘Only two kinds of daughters.’ She shouted in Chinese. ‘Those who are obedient and those who follow their own minds! Only one kind of daughter can live in this house. Obedient daughter!’” Her mother drilled this idea into her mind, which definitely affected her to a large extent. Her mother's expectations were too much, and she could never fulfill them. In her mother's eyes she was a disappointment, and this experience changed her perspective on what’s important in a person. Another example of family influencing our perspectives is shown in “An Indian Father’s Plea” by Medicine Grizzly Bear. In the personal letter from a father to his son's teacher he expresses his concerns for his sons education. Pg(99) “‘My son Wind Wolf, is not an empty glass coming into your class to be filled. He is a full basket coming into a different environment and a society with something special to share. Please

My family background has greatly impacted my career goals. I come from a family background where my family always wanted what was best for me. They are always there for me and support me when I need them. With all of that support encouraging me, I'm inspired to go out into the world and do my best. Recently, I engaged in different activities which provided me with the experience of counseling others. For a while now, when certain family members are trying to voice their opinions towards one another I

I would like you to imagine being in a country where your family has moved but you have never visited before. You do not speak the language. Every word you hear except from the small portion of your family is unfamiliar and confusing. There is no implicit definition for many of these syllables and even if there were, you would not know it, but this culture intrigues you. These people live a life like you have never seen.

In saying that, I was baptized, raised and confirmed Catholic. Whenever I was facing trials and tribulations, prayer was always the answer. Accordingly, it has been embedded in my brain that family always have and always will come before anything else in my life. My parents are to be treated with a high level of respect and I am to take their word over mine regardless of my age and experiences. As I transformed into my teenage years, this was a significant difficultly for me because I wanted to start making decisions for myself but I could not do so because of my parents. However, this has allowed me to live my life in an open and honest manner because I know they will not always accept my actions or decisions but they have taught me to come forth and learn from my mistakes.

In most of the societies about a century ago, the family was the most valued system in almost all spheres of life and human living. Family is the only institution which provides the security and support without any rewards in return. The effectiveness of family functioning in conditioning the children's personality and social development has an outstanding importance (Roelfse and Middleton, 1985). The family interactions play an important role in the development of an individual. These interactions and interpersonal relationships are seen between parents, parent and child, siblings, and any other relative or person living in the household. The healthy functioning of these interaction patterns enhances mental health of the individual Children need a happy and stable family environment and a conductive social network for their overall growth and development. Yet, happy families are not happy all the time. Disagreements and conflicts are a necessary part of living closely together. Both love and hate are to be expected in the intensity of family life and peers interactions, but it is the way negative emotions are handled that makes a difference to family life and social interactions (Parke and Buriel, 1998). Parenting has long been recognized as making an important contribution to the development of competencies and problem behavior among children and adolescents. However, recently researchers have begun to develop attention to understanding variations in parenting in different

My family is one that values high conversation but low conformity. Thus, we fall underneath a pluralistic family. We are all very open with each other, and understand that we all have differing view on things. However, we don’t expect anyone to bend and conform to our will. For example, my brother has wanted to be a marine all his life. I didn’t see it as a great life choice because of the amount of time he would be away from family, and the risk of death that he would openly purse. I discussed all the cons with him, trying to get him to understand my viewpoint on why he shouldn’t join. However, he was adamant about his decision and proceeded to list all the reasons he personally wanted to join. At that time, our arguments were on two different specters. However, we respected each other enough to listen to the others side. Ideally, I would have like him to conform and listen to what I said. However, I knew I couldn’t expect him to conform to my

I believe that my siblings conformed to the idea of being Catholics. That fueled the fire for me to be expressive about the doubts I had in this religion. I began to just say that I was an atheist and around this age there is a large portion of teenagers that are trying to rebel against their parents. I was invested in proving that I was right and that everyone should be able to see what I believe or why I believe it. As I got older I became more humble about my views and what I believed in, I stopped being so upfront about what I thought was right or wrong. One of the main reasons was that it was brought to my attention that everyone has their own personal reasons for what they believe in and just because I don’t agree with it doesn’t mean I shouldn’t respect it. A break through moment was when I had a conversation with my sister about God and the concept of him watching over everyone, and she told me that she believed in God because it was reassurance, she needed to believe that there was something beyond her and that she wasn’t entirely alone in this world. I understood what she was saying and at that point I respected her views. I also realized that in this point of my life I can’t be at peace with that. I’ve struggled with a lot of things in my life and it just wasn’t logical to me it still really isn’t clear to me. I continue to venture out and inform myself about different religions and

Even though, I know that he did not completely accept it, but the fact that he’s willing to adjust to my decision and decided to come back home was enough for me. Now, I go to church every Saturday and has adapted to the SDA beliefs. Although I am baptized already but I am still learning more and more about Him. There might be so many obstacles, temptation, arguments that I have to face ever since I got baptized, but I am glad that God is with me and He’s willing to guide me to the right path whenever I needed him. My parents may not be separated anymore, but the arguments between religions will always be a hot topic within our house up till now, but this won’t stop me from believing in God. In my opinion as long as you believe God, obey his commandments, and love him, we all look the same in his eyes for His love and mercy is unfailing. The struggles that I have gone through just for choosing a religion was really hard and complicated. Going through and experience three different types of Christian was kind of confusing to me, but then it was still a blessing. For I was able to get the opportunity to know and experience the differences between these

Every fall, my maternal family takes a four day trip to Tennessee. There are around 25 of us that go each year and we all stay in the same cabin. Everyone seems to have an amazing time, except for one person who happens to be me. My family and I don’t get along very well because we have very different views. For example, I have taken a personal oath not to drink alcohol. I didn’t do this because I believe that drinking is wrong, I did this because I’ve seen all of the negative impacts of alcohol first hand and it is not

There are millions of people who have dealt with similar issues such as coming to terms with their religious beliefs. For me, it wasn’t as difficult as it must have been for others, an example being my parents, to grow up not feeling particularly connected to any religion. While they raised me with the option of choosing or not choosing a religion, my parents were not raised with that liberty. It must be difficult to not share similar ideologies as those close to you so deeply believe in, this being a sentiment that addresses multiple topics, not just religion (Pearce, 2007). I realize how lucky I am to have been given the option and opportunity to make my own decisions about such a majorly detailed subject. I was given absolute freedom to go whatever direction I chose. Though I never felt attached to any religion I’ve looked into, I greatly appreciated the chance my parents gave me to formulate my own

A primary relationship in my life would have to be with my mother. This may sound a little strange; however, I used to not be around my mother often. My mom and I had a bad relationship when I was growing up. We fought constantly, or she was never home to support me. Despite this, my mother and I have a very good relationship now. I tell her everything about my life and we go out to lunch and mingle. She is very supportive, listens to my problems, and she tries to help me with my needs. The fundamental attribution error states that there is an error in the explanation for another person's behavior. My mom and I did not understand each other at all. She always thought that there were external attributions affecting my behavior. However, they were internal. My mom did not understand that others were not making me angry, it was her. She would ignore me and exclude me.

”No one is ever born into Life alone. Everyone has shared the bond of family, at least at birth, and for many people it is a bond that will follow them throughout life. For many people it is the most important bond of all.”

In today’s society, every person in every family have a different role to act on. For some families, the roles are equally shared. Every decision they make, they would talk and plan it through with one another. The more traditional family, the male would be in charge of everything since they are consider the “dominant” one. The male would be the one making the family decision and taking care of the family, while the female would be responsible for the little things such as being the typical role of a wife. In my family, we used to be the traditional roles. Where my dad would take care of all the financial needs, while my mom would be in charge of all the cooking and cleaning. I started to noticed this when I was ten years old. Back then,