The common perception of marriage is that it was originally weighted heavily in favour of the male member of the couple, and that this has shifted slowly to a more even-handed arrangement in recent years. This essay will examine the question of how accurate this belief really is. Historically, marriage was highly unequal. While the husband took the role of breadwinner and went out to earn the necessary money to support the family, his wife was expected to stay at home and look after the more mundane tasks that make up the day-to-day running of a household. As the former role was commonly seen as more valuable than the latter, this often meant that the husband held most of the power, such as deciding where they would live, how resources were distributed, etc.
Sociology examines how our behavior individually and in groups is influenced by social processes and what that means. In fact once you start seeing things with a sociological perspective – things will never be the same. It’s knowing how and why we do what we do that engages us with the world around us and makes us more effective agents for social change. However, sociologist C. Wright Mills describes sociology as “the intersection of biography and history?” A lot of you may wonder what he mean: well from my studying and perspectives; The reason why he say sociology is the interception of biography and history is because, Biography: happens to individuals and History: happens to society. For example, every
Sociologists greatly clash in their respective perspectives on the view of social policies which ultimately makes it hard to understand the true extent of what they do to our society. Therefore, I will be examining just how worthy these views about social policies and their effects of the family are. As item 2B states, feminists argue that social policies assume that the ideal family is a patriarchal one, where they are created in order to continue the trend of a man in control of the family, in a nuclear family which involves a married heterosexual couple as well as children, own or adopted. This is shown in ways such as; giving women custody over children in courts by assuming that they are caregivers and making it harder for women to claim social benefits as they are seen to be dependent on men. One main example of the way in which feminists argue that social policies continue this trend of patriarchy was presented by Lamb.
Sociological Perspectives There are 7 different sociological perspective and they are known as; * New right * Postmodernism * Collectivism * Interactionism * Functionalism * Marxism * Feminism These are groups and organisations formed by people they believe that social structures influence the way we behave, our beliefs and our culture. They also think that there is three very important social structures for the practice of health and social care are the family, the education system and the health care services. People are diverse and their behaviours depend mainly on their socialisation. This theory is set on the logically interrelated statements that attempts to describe, explain, and predict social events occasionally. The main perspectives of this are the overall point of view towards a subject for example aspects of a person’s social life.
Using materials from item 2B and elsewhere, assess sociological views of the impact of government policies and laws on family life. Social policies are laws and actions taken on my other governing bodies, such as welfare systems or schools, which gives societies its rules and structure. It is true that these social policies must have an impact on aspects of life including family life for members of that society however sociologists often disagree on what this impact is. Therefore by looking at a range of different sociological views we can get a picture of how social policies and their effect on society are perceived differently and which opinions hold most relevance to family life today. As we can see in item 2B a feminist sociological thinker believes that ‘social policies assume the ideal family is the patriarchal nuclear family’ and this sort of family is favoured by government policies and laws.
Simmel was interested in revealing the universal characteristics present in all social relationships, whether in an office, a family or a bus queue. Similarly historical studies of the social structure of the Roman Empire may have little relevance to today’s social problems. On the other hand, may sociologists are interested in solving social problems through their research. For example, sociologists who feel strongly about poverty or about inequalities in educational achievement have conducted research aimed at discovering solutions to the social problems. Many are employed directly by the government departments such as the Home Office or the Department for Children,
First Argument point – aimed to fix the problems in society that resulted from the industrial movement, such as long working hours, little pay, dangerous working conditions, and child labor. b. Doc that supports your argument – E c. Statement to link back to thesis – Social progressives of the era realized the harsh injustices and problems in the labor system and aimed to change them, in turn defining the labor system in the way that it exists today, which proves that the work of the progressives influenced the nation forever. d. Second Argument point – factory investigating commission took note of the disregard for rights, safety, and health of workers e. Doc that supports your argument - F f. Statement to link back to thesis – Due to the movements of the Progressive Era concerning the rights, health and safety of workers, such as factory investigations, the government was forced to acknowledge this, which changed the lives of laborers in the U.S. forever. III. Body Paragraph #2—WOMEN’S RIGHTS a.
This restriction on the citizens goes against two of the three freedoms (social, economic, political) classical liberalism was founded on. As long as trickle-down economics is in effect the rich will only get richer at the expense of the poor “99%”. The nation needs to change for the benefit of its people, movements can bring change. A prime example of a movement bringing change to its nation is the Women’s suffrage movement. In Canada and the United States women fought for their political rights and freedoms.
Under the direction of President Obama, his solutions such as regulating curriculums and student loans on a federal level is what caused this mess today. The President should not be in charge of our educational system, it should be parents and our local community. And how could I not forget hard work. Because we have required work to be a condition of welfare, employment has risen and poverty has decreased. However, President Obama’s policies such as waiving the work requirements have put us back into the era of dependency.
In the conflict theory we see that there are two type of class; bourgeoisie- those who own the means of production, and proletariats- those who provide the labor. (Basirico, et al, 2012, p. 41). Conflict theory is a social theory that views conflicts as inevitable and natural and as a significant cause of social change ( Basirico, et al, 2012, p. 54) Society sees abortion as a conflict. A conflict is not seen because of arguments, violence, and war but because of the struggle that happens in the everyday life trying to maintain and improve their position ion life. (Basirico, et al, 2012, p.