...Family Culture Essay Shannon Marcus GCU- Transcultural Healthcare July 21, 2013 There are numerous factors that either that shape a person as they mature and move through life. Culture, in addition to family traditions, is one of the factors that affect the self-identity of an individual. When growing up, the environment around affect the personality, values, as well as, beliefs of an individual. The environment includes friends, family members, and the people that affect the life of an individual. Each and every family unit is unique in the way they operate and definitive roles that are assigned to each member of the family. This can include extended families with grandparents, and even great grandparents in some case living under the same roof. In this paper I will describe my families cultural values and roles and how that has shaped me in my life today. I actually am a product of a divorce at a very young age. My Mother and Father divorced when I was 5 and we moved to another state. Until then, we lived in a town where I was raised with Catholic believes, mainly because that was my fathers upbringing. It was very traditional if the fact that my mother was a homemaker who primarily raised and cared for my needs. My father went to work, made all the money, paid the bills and therefore made all the decisions regarding how the money would be managed and spent. My mother received an allowance for material goods she may need throughout the month...
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...scenario of social structure is changing as a result, joint family structure demolishes by nuclear family structure. Most of the people adopted false and wrong notions regarding social prestige which put impact on students in negative direction experiencing a lack of right leadership and appropriate guidance, all these above changes become the cause of collapse of children's moral and mental basis. Children, nowadays, are deprived of the love and affection with their grandparents and teacher’s both. We can generally see in metropolitan areas parents do not have time to spend with their children mostly when they go to the office or on their works their wards are in bed and when they come back from their work at night their wards are in deep sleep. So the most of the parents feel that they are not able to...
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...Sociology Essay… A family is a group of people that live together and are related to each other through kinship ties or marriage. Kinship means being related through blood or birth. On the other hand, a household is a group of people who live together but are not related to each other through kinship ties or marriage. It is believed that families make up the majority of households but there are others for example, students or friends sharing a flat/house. There are five main different types of families: * Nuclear Family: Two generations living together (mother, father and dependent children) * Traditional Extended Family: Three or more generations of the same family living together or close by, with frequent contact between grandparents, grandchildren, aunts, cousins etc. * Attenuated Extended Family: Nuclear families that live apart from their extended family, but keep in regular contact e.g. via email or phone. * Single Parent Family: A single parent and their dependent children. * Reconstituted Family: New stepfamilies created when parts of two previous families are brought together. George Murdock (1949) was a famous sociologist that argued that some form of the nuclear family existed in all of the 250 different societies he looked at. He argued the family performed four basic functions – sexual, reproductive, economic and educational (social). Murdock’s definition of a family is: A social group characterised by common residence, economic cooperation and reproduction...
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...Family can be defined in a wide assortment of definitions: the dictionary.com denotation clarifying that a family is “a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household,” or a personal definition which could be that family is the group of people that a person feels the closest to through their life. Those that were not with me all the time had a substantial impact on my childhood, and the person that I am becoming as an adult. This would be my grandparents. My grandpa and I would frequent the school near his house which had a playground, therefore I identified it as a park. A chalky map of the United States was painted on the rough, dark ground, and I would “travel” from the yellow Hawaii to the pink New York. We rode bikes, went to the arcade, and went swimming. We had an overall fantastic time bonding; we did anything a young child might dream of doing. I would beg my parents to let me go over to “Papaw’s house.” We now have a bond that would be impossible to break....
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...This week I choose to watch a classic television show called Roseanne. The structure of this family reflects the typical nuclear family in one way, i.e., having father, mother, and three children (Renzetti, Curran, & Maier, 2011). In this show, the main character is the mother, and she is usually employed full-time, or looking for work, the same as her husband. The show taught viewers about the struggles that lower income families deal with. “The series played a crucial role in defining social class and establishing the dysfunctional family as the norm in the 1990's” (James, 1997, para. 6.) It was the first Television show to depict a strong female head of household, who not only was able to take care of the domestics, but also was able to work and have a social life. The messages that we glean from this show ranges from gender equality, to accepting homosexuals as regular people, and not as deviants from a perceived norm. The Conner family was the first family on TV that I was able to relate to, (it ran from when I was eight years old to when I was 17). They were poor, vulgar and real, just like my family. In addition, it showed us that we were all able to excel, regardless of social class, gender, or sexual orientation....
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...My memory is about my grandparents came to Xindian, where they settled down and I live here, from Fujian,China, and they had a hard time during migrate. And I'm Jaya Liao, I am the smallest member in our family. I was born in a family, but not such a rich clan in history. My family includes my mother, father, my grandfather and grandmother. This memory is from my grandfather, he is a brave person and he had strived for the whole clan of Liao in his life. So I want to share several memories of him with you by writing down the stories in this class project. The memories from grandfather should be pass down to my future family, because it is significant to our clan from past to now. Memory is my great -grandfather's and he told my grandpa, he is dead now. 200 years ago, my clan from Fujian migrate to Taiwan. It was a long journey, there were storm and nature disasters, which killed a lot of people. The Liao's ancestors...
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...Krampus There was an Engel family, it was Dec.5th 2015 in Atlanta there was a son named Max, a daughter named Beth, a mother named Sarah and a father named Tom. Their family just got home from the grocery store so Sarah was just about to cook dinner for their family and the kids mom sister was about to come over with their family. To stay for Christmas Beth and Max hated it when they came over because all they ever wanted to do was fight with each other, eat and watch television. So then Sarah heard a knock at the door and it was them so Beth went up to her room to text her boyfriend because she did not want to be around her aunt’s kids then boom! Aunt Dorothy came bursting through the door with her big bags and suit cases...
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...Nodirjon Sattarov Title Family plays an important role in A Raisin in the Sun showing the struggles each character goes through while trying to keep the family together. Throughout the play Walter, Beneatha, and Mama try to figure out a way to resolve the families’ economic problem with the dreams they pursue. After the death of the father the insurance money is delivered causing the family to scramble towards their own dreams to help the family. i. Walter’s way to help the family Walter, the protagonist of the play, is a father to his only child, Travis, and husband to Ruth. He is the only son to Mama and older brother to Beneatha. He is an average African American man during the mid-twentieth century. During the first act of the play, he...
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...Family of Diversity Cultural Assessment Kristal T. Abstract The family discussed in this paper is of German/Islamic ethnicity. They are a multigenerational family living under one roof, and making the best of what they have. Living in the household is the mother (HW), the father (AW), paternal grandmother (JW), and two children (EW & RW). The mother has some issues that she is working through from her upbringing, and the father is somewhat distant. One of the children has a severe illness that dictates how everyone lives. Both the mother and father suffer from depression, and they feel that this affects their quality time with the children. The mother was extremely open in discussing her family, while both the father and mother in-law were more distant. Both of the parents work, and leave the upbringing of the children to the paternal grandmother. Overall the W Family is pretty Americanized, with only small parts of their culture coming up in daily life. Family of Diversity Cultural Assessment Family Description The family discussed in this paper is a multigenerational family. Included in the household is the father (AW), age 37, mother (HW), age 32, paternal grandmother, (JW), age 69, and two children (EW, RW), whose ages are 6 and 4 respectively. Both AW and HW are the biological parents to the children, with this being their only marriage. HW is a 1st generation immigrant with her parents emigrating from Tehran, Iran to England, and then to America...
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...Patient and Family Centered Care The importance of patient- and family-centered care was included in the Crossing the Quality Chasm: System for the 21st Century (Institute of Medicine, 2001) 1. Family is not limited to genetic ties but also include friends or significant other.The care is focused on the patient but having family around that supports the patient is integral. It is a right of the patient to designate who are the family to be a part of the care he/she receives. Part of quality improvement of the care delivered is the assessment of the client’s perception of the care experience. A “care experience” can be any aspect of the patient and family’s journey of receiving healthcare whether at an inpatient or outpatient setting. Through shadowing, the care experience of the patient and family can enable the healthcare...
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...lifestyles in this decade is true. The opposite pattern is true for those living in areas with strong family values. These neighborhoods generally have a happier, healthier, and more morally driven population. People who grow together as a married couple in the 2000’s tend to raise children that grow up to be happy and virtuous for the good of society. Roland Barthes explains: A myth, like the one mentioned above, “postulates a relation between two terms, a signifier and a signified”, families being the signifiers and their values being the signified (Barthes 112). The trends are that happy families tend to lead more productive lifestyles just as dysfunctional families are more prone to immoral ways of living. This essay will explain how nuclear families benefit society by providing children a better chance to live out successful lives. Families with one father and mother are essential for the proper and ethical upbringing of children. In her book, Urban Neighborhoods, Networks, and Families, Peggy Wireman contends that because “parents are the prime influences of a child’s life children tend to mimic their behaviors” (Wireman 24). They observe and pick up the same values that their parents maintain. Those who do raise children with good standards find their offspring to be productive members of their community; the opposite pattern is true for those who grow up in single parent families. As a result of living without a father, some children find themselves in a position that can...
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...Dexter Downlow Professor Miteechur English Comp II February 10, 2015 American Family Values In the article, “Family Values,” Richard Rodriguez states his view on the positive affect of homosexuality on family values in America. He questions the values that the media and politicians claim Americans hold and intrigues the reader to decide whether the United States values the family at all. With the traditional family dynamic changing every day, so does the perspective of right and wrong. The media, however, is quick to defend the sanctity of the stereotypical family and chastises anything that contradicts that ideal. The things one values changes with age and are shaped through personal experience and relationships made throughout life. This individual moral development should be promoted instead of criticized. This country was founded on the idea of individual rights. However, America is always forcing it’s ideals on others. The United States would be a more unified and progressive place if its citizens embraced the idea of tolerance and valued the diversity that make the people of this country great instead of demonizing what doesn’t fit the stereotypical image of the American family. The United States is seen as the “Land of Opportunity.” People have come from all over the world to give their family a chance at the American Dream. This nation was created by people who believed in the idea of a better life for their children. But what is the American Dream and why was...
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...The dictionary defines family as “a social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for.” In my opinion, family has more of a significant meaning than a social unit. To me, family is a group of people who may or may not be related to you who care, love, and support one another. Family cares for each other through anything. When one person is going through tough times, family is the people who will be there to comfort them. For example, the other side of my family that is not blood related was going through a loss of a family member. We were all incredibly close to him. Even though we knew he was old aged, his death was not expected to have the outcome which took place. Even with his death taking a toll on everyone in the family, we all continued to care for one another as he would want us to. We all focused more on his wife of sixty-five years because understandably she seemed to have taken it the hardest out of everyone. Family is supposed to have a solid, caring bond to one another that will be there through the good and the bad....
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...the child “Single-parent household”: A household with only one parent “Discrimination”: Inequitable treatment of categories of people; verbal, physical or structural in nature. Section 1: Significance According to the Ministry of Social and Family Development, there are, as of 2014, 82000 households consisting of single parents with children, making up 7% of all households in Singapore, and though this proportion has not changed in recent years, this is still...
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...Growing Pains, The Cosby Show, or Family Ties are known as the classic nuclear family, or as you may know, the all American Family. As we can see from these TV shows, the classic nuclear family is a married couple with their children. Good Morning, I am Technical Sergeant Ramon Aguilar and I will be speaking to you on one of the 12 Domains of Culture, Family & Kinship, but more in-depth on Family Size and Structure and Marriage. I will now like to go into more detail on how the current family size and structure in American culture is evolving, followed by how those dynamics play a role in marriage today. Let me begin with family size and structure. 2. In 1960’s your typical classic American family consisted of...
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