This quote discusses that as a people of this nation we have a responsibility to become working and independent individuals who strive for the best. Also, I feel we are setting an example for our children which teaches them that they do not have to look for a handout from the government, but work hard and earn a living as a contributing effort to our society. In this essay, I will discuss my views on the essay written by Coontz. I will do this by using quotes from the book and relating them back to personal examples in which I feel are important. Welfare is a common part of our world today; both in the present and past.
While many disregard this system as cruel and unfair, in reality it helped to shape America as it is today. Without the help of this system, economies would not be as developed as they are now. Unfree labor played a very important role in shaping the economy and society of colonial American through the use of indentured servants and slavery. The system of temporary servitude in the New World was established out of practices used in New England. In short, indentured servants were mainly poor British people without jobs.
There has been a decrease in the number of nuclear families in the UK and an increase in various other families such as single parent families. But the raise in single parent households has to do with the increase in divorce across the UK which means that more people are left having to support their children on their own unless they become a reconstituted family. Functionalists are classed as modernists when it comes to their opinions on family diversity in post-modern UK. But they also see modern society as clear-cut, fixed and predictable. They think that the best and strongest family type is the nuclear family.
Assess the contribution of functionalism to our understanding of families and households. Functionalists have different views to how the family should be formed and the roles and responsibilities within them. There are how ever opposing theories form conflict theories. Functionalist sociologists believe that the family is vital for the build and survival of society. With family being the primary factor for being the way that we act functionalists believe it is important that the family socialises the children properly so that they can pass on these norms and values, This will there for ensure that the children will confirm to laws and rules.
Chapter 13 - “Analyzing Managerial Decisions: Bagby Copy Company MBA 540 Michelle Wilson August 9, 2015 There are many advantages and disadvantages to specific vs. broad task assignment. Assigning specific tasks to workers allows the company to hire specifically based on the ability of the worker to do a very specific job. In this way efficiency can be increased as a worker should be performing the job that he is comparatively best suited to perform and nothing else. Competition amongst workers can also be increased as there is a specific metric to judge by. The cost of training a worker is also reduced as the worker does not have to be trained in every aspect of the company only what he is going to be doing.
This inflates questions about the ethics of children’s marketing and its impact on the health and well being of kids. The documentary Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood focuses directly on the huge impact this is making. You are what you buy; you are what you own, if you don’t have it you are seen as less fortunate than others. What you buy is who you are. Education and consumerism blindly targets you and is easily mistaken for happiness and satisfaction.
However working class children were put into work houses or in agriculture to help support the low incomes of families’ economic struggles. This, in accordance to Aries, tells us that children were seen more as a financial asset than a symbol of peoples love for one another. This can be supported by looking how families in pre-industrial had larger families because of reasons of needing a better overall family income but also because life expectancy was dramatically lower than it in modern day terms. One thing in common that both sets of children shared in this society was strict control by parents/ adult authoritive figures and severe punishment for defiance. It was only in late industrialisation when significance change occurred, people began campaigning for child rights, something that had never happened until this point.
Functionalists view society based on consensus. They believe that education helps to bridge the gap between family and society. They also believe in the theory of meritocracy. Other theories such as Marxism often challenges their theory. Functionalists believe education is a key component in the construction of society, they also believe that it is one of the most important institutions and plays a major role during secondary socialisation.
Furthermore, “33,860” of these kids were exposed to hazardous jobs. One of the main reasons for the employment of children is the demand for fast and cheap production. Nicola Phillips, who works in the Department of Politics at The University of Sheffield, argues that abuse of child labor in private sectors happen because the manufacturing can be done by unskilled workers, meaning that by hiring children, they can spend less on labor cost since all they do is futile work (Phillips et al., 2014). Moreover, Phillips argues that another benefit offered by child labor is the improbability of them creating trade unions to demand higher salaries and better conditions. In other words, a benefit some employers see on child labor is that they
Assess the view that Industrialisation led to the decline of the extended family and the rise of the nuclear family. Industrialisation is where the country begins to start producing items using factories. This allowed extended families to become wage earners that meant they were able to work for someone else other than their selves and their families which allowed their money to become much more secure as they were getting a fixed amount whereas if they worked from themselves it could be better or worse. This was important as extended families consisted of the children and their parents but also grandparents or aunts and uncles and their children. So having a large family meant everyone had to contribute financially which was much easier as it was less risky and also required the family to become smaller as the children couldn't work due to geographical mobility.