Soc 1001 Week 3 Assignment

In 1994, the New York City Police Department adopted a law enforcement crime fighting strategy known as COMPSTAT (COMPuter STATistics). COMPSTAT uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to map the locations of where crimes occur, identify “ hotspots”, and map problem areas. COMPSTAT has amassed a wealth of historical crime data. Mathematicians have designed and developed algorithms that run against the historical data to predict future crimes for police departments. This is known as predictive policing. Predictive policing has led to a drop in burglaries, automobile thefts, and other crimes in some cities.

A family can be defined as a person or people who make an effort to make sure that you are doing okay. They prove to you that they will always be an important part of your life, and that you will never be alone when you need someone the most. Family is an important factor in life, these people can help determine what type of person you will be. They help shape you into becoming an amazing person. They do not necessarily have to be blood to be a part of your family. They could just be a major aspect of your life. These people could be complete and total strangers to you at first, but if they demonstrate that they will help improve you life, they should be considered family. These people display many characteristics that will help benefit you in many ways.

According to population ecology, environment plays a vital role in deciding the survival of organizations. Since the importance of environment and the scarcity of environment resources, only those whose organization form and population fit the environment can survive.

A family can shape one’s identity. A family can guide you through life. They can be supportive and helpful. This is important

The dictionary definition of family is “a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household.” or even “all the descendants of a common ancestor.” In some cases, that is not always true. Most families hardly even have both parents in the picture. Some kids get even adopted or put into foster care, yet the guardians are there for them nonetheless. To me, family is so much more than that.

Over time the meaning of the word family changed dramatically including family values. To me family is the people I live with such as my father, mother, sister, and brothers. Family provides support to its members by depending on one another and they teach us how to socialize and function in the society. For example, learning what behaviors or actions society consider as normal. Moreover, types of family that society considers as normal also changed. For example, now families like same sex, conjugal family, and single parent family are considered as normal where in the past nuclear family the only family considered as normal by society.

Families have been an important social construct since the first humans decided it was a good idea to create some sort of order in their lives. Families are still as important as in those times, as we see them as recurring symbols in all forms of media. From movies to books, we see different kinds of families, and a multitude of strains put on families, although in almost every example, family triumphs over the odds. Unless a good portion of the members of the family are dead. Due to a bomb. I digress.

What is family? Family will always be there, no matter the situation you're in. There love will be unconditionally. You can’t just pick any family you just get blessed. Every family has their own weirdness, craziness or traditions. Unlike my family there’s something special about them that’s unexplainable. I’m thankful for both sides of my families; I love each and everyone of them. The amounts of love and support that I received from them has help me become the person that I am today.

Family is “a group of people who are related to each other: a social unit consisting of parents and their children” (merriam-webster.com). My family has had a very positive influence on my development. I was always taught family comes first and my sister was my best friend. I happen to have lived with my extended Italian family for most of my life. When I was younger, my Nana lived with us and after I was married, my parents moved into the in-law apartment in my house. My family was and still is a very important part of my life. We are always there for each other and still are very active in each other’s lives. For me, personally, it is hard to talk about family without mentioning my Italian culture. Being from an all Italian family and since I am only the second generation born in the United States, I am quite certain that culture has had a major effect on my development.

In my opinion, family, and the relationship between different family members, is messy and confusing, but beautiful nonetheless. Family, in my opinion, is a complex web of interconnectedness, and mutual love. My personal definition of family, is those who are there for you in your hour of need. I have been very blessed to have an amazing support system, who is there to love and support me through life’s challenges. However, my opinion on family is constantly changing, as I grow and learn, about the individuals around me, and family history that has come to light. To clarify, as I have grown older, I have started to become more aware of family struggles, and have become privy to conversations on family, that at a young age, I was not. Family history, and struggles are very hard to hear and learn about, and are at times, too difficult to explain on a piece of paper. However, it is incredibly important to acknowledge the past, in order to understand your family’s future.

For me and most of my classmate, family can be people whom we are related to most times by blood and are present in our lives and supports us. I know this definition is not only flawed but dismissive and cliche because that definition only represent some certain kind of family and not all of them. Google and co might give us a concrete definition of a family but in actuality that definition is flawed because, there isn't any one way to define family but rather the definition of family is drawn by what is not only happening to us but around us and most importantly the advancement of the community/society we live

To me, a family has many forms. Some only consider family those related biologically, but I believe family means for than just biological connection. Family may be through marriage, adoption, friends, or pets that make impact ones life. The texts definition supports my view of a family. Family is defined as, “those persons who are biologically and/or psychologically related, are connected by historical, emotional, economic bonds, and perceive themselves as part of a household”(Gladding, 2015, p.30).

Since the united stated has become so diverse that the definition of family has change, therefore, in my perspective, culture background, and personal experience, a family is not only blood related that lives in the same household but also someone that has been by my side showing empowerment through rough times. Therefore, I perceive the definition of family as, someone who, has seen the good and the bad side of me and still accept me who I am with judging me. Someone that has helped me through a difficult situation without asking anything in return. A family that is very supportive, therefore, making me believe in myself and feel very motivated to keep me going every day even though sometimes my life was difficult in this country. furthermore,

The concept of family is every member having a special roll. Weather it be daugter or dad, they are still important. David Ogden Stiers quotes, “Family means no one is left behind or forgotten.”

Family are the people you come home to with smiles on their faces after a long and tough day. When you have messed up big time and made mistakes, family is the ones who have your back. If you are struggling and need someone to talk to, they are the people who are there to console you. When it feels like the world