My Role In 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.

Family plays an important role in every society. It is the main structure that made up a good society. Samovar, Porter & McDaniel (2015) write, “families are instrumental in teaching young people about their identities, how they fit into their culture, and where to find security” (p.73). Family is the first school in one’s life. In the early stages of our life, we learn how to eat, speak, communicate, and behave from our family, consciously and unconsciously we imitate our parents. In my religion (Islam) there is a great deal of attention to the importance of marriage and making family. Prophet Mohammad said, “The best of you is the best to his family and I am the best amongst you to my family”. Moreover, Islam assign a role to each member of the family, as parents take care of their children and the children should respect and obey their mother and father. I totally agree with Samovar, Porter & McDaniel (2015) when they mentioned that “the three most influential social organizations are (1) family, (2) state, and (3) religion” (p.70). For me, I believe that my family shapes most of my identity.

Your life is changed every day and there are many points to your life. One point of my life is that family is the most important thing. Family is an important factor of everyone’s life, it’s who you are and who you have become today.

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

Family is the first group of people a child sees when it exits the womb. A family’s presence is the last feeling that the body experiences as it is placed below the earth’s soil. The family is essential to human development because of its early presence in a person’s life and its continued effect on a human throughout life. Family affects the four domains which are physical, emotional, social, and cognitive, also key concepts within the lifespan theory, ecological systems theory, and psychosocial theory influence family. Explanations on as to how family, in specifically my family, is impacted or impacts my human development will be featured in the essay.

I’m 17, I’m 5’7, I’m productive with my time, I typed this essay and my family has a tremendous role in my life. With the guidance of family, interests, and the places I’ve been, I have determined the future I want to pursue.

The Trust to which I am currently employed, in the capacity of the Think family lead is part of a large mental health care Trust. There are six single sex acute inpatient wards for male and female. The main responsibility of my manager as director is to promote and lead the Trust’s vision and mission. The Think family lead is part of the senior management structure and is essential to the provision of leadership at the community, hospital managerial and leadership levels.

The essential question is “How does one find his/her place in society?” it’s such a difficult question to answer. It’s so hard because, people can go their whole lives without finding where exactly they fit in. Others can find their place completely by accident. Finding your place in society is something you do when you aren’t looking for it.

There are 7 billion individuals in this world and all of them are unique because they are different. Everyone has different opinions, traits, perspectives, morals, rules, and stories, so where do they contrive these differences? I assume they formulate their ideas from personal experiences and how they were raised by their parents. Famous writer and professor, Alice McDermott shares that “Family dynamics are true over time, across generations and different cultures.” From this, we can gather that our sense of what is right and what is wrong does not just solely come from our parents, but from generations in our families. I believe that an individual’s Moral Absolute will be quite similar to their parents. In my case, I formulate my moral absolute’s from my parents. These moral absolutes include: not to steal, not to strike a woman, and not to cheat.

Assess your family on the concepts of the theories listed on page 33. This part of the case study is to examine roles and changes of family dynamics during the course of your life. Provide specific examples of what that looks like, you can explain how by giving examples – “…we have a game night every Tuesday…and every weekend we try to…”

What is a family? To me the word family has so many meanings, but to me it’s a group of people who will always be in your life no matter what. Having a family means that you have people that will never leave you hanging. A family is a pack, a bond. My definition comes from seeing how my family operates and no matter what, they always show love to one another. My family is Guyanese, meaning they came from the Caribbean island Guyana. Our culture revolves music, food and being very social. This involves a lot of parties and family gatherings, allowing us to always see each other and keep in touch. But, how did my family get here? What was their life journey? And how did that affect me?

Everyone defines himself or herself by something, whether it is their sport or their best subject or their favorite club. I am not excluded, and despite my involvement in fencing and my love of biology or my involvement in the International Baccalaureate at my school I think of myself of something else. I am above all an independent person. This is something I have carried with me for most of my life and education, as it came about when my father was deployed to Afghanistan during my fifth grade year. This was the same year my brother went off to college for the first time, which left me as the only male in my house. I was too young to realize I could not be the man of the house; in my mind, I had to try to be. I began doing more dishes, dealing

As an individual who works in a company, I have always been a part of a group and still am. However, there are traits in me which has been outlined in this discussion, both on the negative side and on the positive side. In the past, I have taken on roles which were helpful, but sometimes, they were not helpful. On the positive side, I have taken on the role of an:

Family has assumed a key part in molding me into the individual I am today. However, as I have matured, I have developed my own standards in view of my comprehension of the world. My family 's qualities are anchored firmly on religion and we attempt to live the values that the Bible lays out. Growing up, my family instilled Christian qualities into me and these qualities are imbued in my memory and I attempt to practice them despite the fact that I don 't generally succeed. As of now, I am driven by aspiration and yearning to be at peace with myself. I have certain objectives I need to accomplish and my qualities and morals have advanced to incorporate them while attempting to keep up those morals I learned when I was young. There since have been occurrences whereby I have gotten in difficulties and I need to settle on what I know to be right and what serves my self-interest. I can 't assert that I generally make the best choices. Yet, I pride myself on being principled. Usually, I adhere to a specific way on the off chance that I feel that it is right with my beliefs. My struggle with is with the whisper in my ear attempting to occupy me from my previously chosen way, however I am persistent, resolute, and take after what I have confidence in to be right to me. I rarely make serious ethical violations but I will not hesitate to own my actions.

However, “emerging adulthood” has changed our family dynamics. Now that I am more independent there doesn’t seem to be near as much to argue about. Communication is key, my parents provide assistance and standby guidance as needed and mutual respect. My maturing while in college has affected my relationships with all my family members on a more adult level. It has made me closer to my Mom, her guidance that I once ignored, fussed and openly denied, I now value. I talk to her daily about all my concerns. In retrospect, I now see that the advice that I thought was so dumb was full of wisdom and love. In other words, all the times I was rolling my eyes, she was right. We now share as adults, mother to daughter and woman to woman. She asks my advice and values my judgements as much as I do hers. I now better understand my dad’s concern for financial matters and how it affects the future wellbeing of the family. I respect his money management skills that have allowed both my brother and I to attend college debt free and to take care of the mechanical day to day needs. I can have a mature conversation about social and world views, my car maintenance, basic matters of life with him and still continue to share our past love of going to the farm together. He in turn, calls me frequently for assistance with various questions he feels I may know the answer to.