Why do you think Huxley chose to mythologize Ford (and briefly Freud) in Brave New World? FAMILY 20. Why does the Utopia make family an obscene joke or a crime? (Hint: Huxley says it's because families produce neuroses. Could it also be that the family is a focus of loyalty that might compete with the state?)
Ethan Gregory “Tragedy in the Commons” is a comprehensive essay by Garrett Hardin proposing a government limitation on the reproduction within a family. Hardin suggests that by placing restrictions on the size of families, the overuse and depreciation of the economical assets will at minimal effect slow the steady decline of our nation’s ability to “sustain” our way of life. While the growth of the population is directly mentioned in the article, I believe Hardin also wants us to see the way of life we all know cannot be maintained without sacrificing the very freedoms that make up this way of life. This work has a primary focus on the size of families and the act of surrendering the right to have a family of any size that we as “free”
A good example to illustrate it is imagining a broken pen or human body. If one of the parts or organs stops working, then it causes a chain of destruction and the object has to possibility to work appropriately. George Murdoch (1949) argues that the family performs four essential functions to meet the needs of society and its members. These functions are; economic needs, reproduction, primary socialisation and sex. He believes that those needs can only be achieved within a nuclear family.
Assess sociological views of the impact of government policies and laws on family life. A social policy is a plan or action of government agencies which aims to improve or reform society. Sociologists have many different views on them which makes it difficult to understand if they really are beneficial towards our society. Feminists argue that society is patriarchal and everything is made to benefit men. An example of this could be maternity and paternity leave.
Functionalist Parsons believes that instability is created with diversity and the nuclear family is a lot more predictable and therefore practical family structure. New Right sociologist Murray believes that benefits given to diverse families such as lone parent families are harmful to the nuclear family and he believes that it encourages irresponsibility and laziness. This view is criticised by the Labour view as they believe that benefits help those in poverty and encourage family diversity as people should be able to live how they choose. The New Labour has nothing against the nuclear family but does believe that people should be able to live in different family structures and they should be supported in doing so. Also post modernists believe that the nuclear family is no longer dominant and people now live in a society where they make their own decisions and every family is different in structure as peopled live with freedom and they don’t have to follow convention.
Body Paragraph # 2 Topic Sentence: There are differences in the three sociological theories of the family institution. Supporting Evidence: The conflict theory for the family does not believe in the myth that families are always harmonious but instead, believe that the family can deal with differences, change and conflict (Plunket, 2011). The functionalism theory for the family believes that the basic function for the nuclear family is that it fulfills four basic functions for society: the sexual, reproductive, economic and education functions ( Unknown, 2010). The interactionism looks at the ways that a family creates and re-creates themselves every day. This view looks at how the family unit is built through their interactions (Jacobsen,etc.
A Cross Cultural Examination of Sexuality: Modern vs Underdeveloped Societies Psychologists have highlighted a number of divisions regarding sexuality across a variety of cultures. The word ‘sex’ has different meanings. Sex refers to the biological and physiological differences between men and women, the most obvious being differences in their reproductive systems. Every culture controls the sexuality of its members to a certain extent, by embedding it in the institutions of family, religion and law. According to Potts & Short (1999) the core social arrangement within the institution of the family is the marital relationship.
Assess the view that the nuclear family is no longer the norm The nuclear family is seen as a family unit consisting of a married couple; a mother, a father and their biological children. Where the father would be seen as the bread winner and the mother seen as the one who would be more designed to stay at home and do the domestic chores. It has been argued that nuclear family could no longer be seen as the norm, I will be assessing this by looking at the views the sociologists theorists hold over this as well as their evidence. There are many different forms of families such as; nuclear family, extended families, reconstituted, same sex and single parent families. The diversity of families has increased over these following years, due to the changes in society and values.
In his article, “Family Values in America”, Dudley Erskine Devlin presents the readers with two different common opinions on causes and solutions for the decline of family values in the USA nowadays. He says, some social critics offer us to rediscovery the traditional values of the nuclear family with a father, a mother and children. Others argue that the entire communities have responsibility for raising children and our culture need to be adjustment. Devlin also adds his own argument: “We just need to back off and give the kids some space.” I both approve and disapprove the author’s reviews in certain points. Devlin shows us some facts and examples of divorce rates, one-parent family and murderous kids in America.
The traditional nuclear family is in danger of extinction. Increasingly we are forced to reconcile the growing discontinuity between what we are taught to strive for and expect of our lives and the truth of the reality by which we are surrounded. Is not the “American Dream” a career, a home, and a family? Dream on. Because the familial foundation upon which this dream is built is cracked.