American family has evolved considerably over the years. The well-known image of a nuclear family and their loveable dog, cheerfully standing behind their picket fence is fading. The 1950's portrayal of popular families no longer pertains to the majority of Americans nowadays because our society is moving toward equality. The television sitcom series, Modern Family, attempts to embody a more contemporary image of American families. Nevertheless, their intention is to depict modern families nowadays
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October 2, 2014 Tues/Thurs 11-12:15 Professor E Family Case Study – Modern Family Modern Family, a sitcom that has been on the air for five years, is a realistic look into the dynamics of a large family with an interracial couple, a homosexual couple, and an adopted child. While not a typical family, the premise is certainly more up to speed with families in today’s society. The show has been very successful and it may be due in part to the fact that the show pokes fun of gays, has a sassy
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Modern Family The show “Modern Family” is one of the most successful sitcom on television today. The show depicts a total of three families, a parental family, (Jay and Gloria) and the families of the two grown siblings, (Mitchell & Claire). Claire is married to Phil and has three children of their own, while Mitchell is a gay father with a live-in husband, Cameron. The on-screen worldview of the families are very open with an almost anything goes attitude that is based on an atheist or an agnostics
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Deviance, Sexuality, and the Family Many people do not notice how many times sexual and family deviance pops up in front of our eyes on the television. Everyday hundreds of shows come on TV that portray the way society reacts to strays in the social norm. Examples of family and social deviance can be found in shows like The Addams Family and Modern Family. LGBT members can be found throughout Modern Family because of the main characters being in a gay relationship. Family deviance is an example of
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Debunking the Modern Family Myth According to Stephanie Coontz in “What We Really Miss About The 1950’s”, the 1950’s were symbolic in terms of the nuclear American family. The “typical” nuclear American family structure consisted of an unemployed stay-at-home mom, working dad, a child or two, and a suburban home. In her article, she refers to the 1950’s as being the optimal time period for family’s where the ideology in television shows such as “Father Knows Best” and “Leave It To Beaver” was not
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The television series Modern Family attempts to portray a more contemporary view of American families being that the traditional image of a nuclear family is fading out. However, despite the show’s aim at presenting the image of modern families in America today, the show still emphasizes stereotypes and outdated patriarchal ideologies. All three of the families on the show Modern Family are in the upper middle class. The first family is the Dunphys—the husband is Phil Dunphy who is a the breadwinner
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Today's Modern Family - How it has Changed.... Shawn A. Gropper COM/172 - Elements of University Composition and Communication II August 11, 2014 Ms. Elaine Boyle Today's Modern Family - How it has Changed.... Traditional families of the past are nothing like what they are today; due in part to the continual pressure society places on the modern family. “The nuclear family (or traditional family) is a term used to define a family group consisting of a pair of adults and their children.”
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Modern family was introduced to America as a show about three families, a traditional family structure, homosexual family, and a mixed family that all interact with each other. Keeping Up With the Kardashians are an American family with their own reality TV show, centering around a celebrities everyday life. In analyzing the two popular TV shows Modern Family and Keeping Up With the Kardashians from a feminist perspective, it is evident that American culture in today’s society is either pushing or
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popular television show Modern Family. The sitcom documents the daily life of a fictitious “modern” family, consisting of a common Caucasian family, a gay couple, and a young-wife-older-husband couple, all of whom are related. The stereotypes of the Dunphy family, particularly Claire, stand out as she fulfills the expected stereotypical role of a stay-at-home mother, her family constantly teasing her and her consistent attempts to contain her family to be a normal family. Being a stay-at-home mother
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The concept of the family has changed drastically from being of an extended family in pre-industrial society which contained two or more generations living under one roof. The role of the family was primarily a unit of production and reproduction which revolved around the farm. In comparison in industrial societies the nuclear family consists of two adults living together with children. This type of family structure was referred as the "stem" family. The changes in marriage, divorce and cohabitation
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