family of orientation

Examples of family of orientation in the following topics:

• The Functions of a Family

  • Given these functions, the nature of one's role in the family changes over time.
  • From the perspective of children, the family instills a sense of orientation: The family functions to locate children socially, and plays a major role in their socialization .
  • Producing offspring is not the only function of the family.
  • From the perspective of children, the family is a family of orientation: The family functions to locate children socially, and plays a major role in their socialization.
  • From the point of view of the parents, the family is a family of procreation: The family functions to produce and socialize children

• Families and Theory

  • The primary function of the procreative families (e.g., families built around the pursuit of parenthood) is to reproduce society, biologically through procreation, socially through socialization, or in both ways.
  • Given these functions, one's experience of one's family shifts over time.
  • From the perspective of children, the family is a family of orientation: the family functions to locate children socially, and plays a major role in their socialization.
  • From the point of view of the parent(s), the family is a family of procreation: the family functions to produce and socialize children.
  • No society does all of these; no one of these is universal, and many people different societies lack access to whatever marital and family privileges available in their given social context.

• Family

  • Given these functions, the individual's experience of his or her family shifts over time.
  • From the perspective of children, the family is a family of orientation: the family functions to locate children socially, and plays a major role in their socialization.
  • From the point of view of the parent(s), the family is a family of procreation: The family functions to produce and socialize children.
  • Producing offspring is not the only function of the family.
  • Families have strong ties and, therefore, are powerful agents of socialization.

• Primary and Secondary Groups

  • In sociology we distinguish between two types of groups based upon their characteristics.
  • Families and close friends are examples of primary groups
  • Secondary groups are large groups whose relationships are impersonal and goal-oriented.
  • Such groups also begin and end with very little significance in the lives of the people involved.
  • This family from the 1970s would be an example of a primary group.

• The Functionalist Perspective

  • For functionalists, the family creates well-integrated members of society and teaches culture to the new members of society.
  • This approach looks at society through a macro-level orientation, which is a broad focus on the social structures that shape society as a whole.
  • For functionalists, the family creates well-integrated members of society and instills culture into the new members of society.
  • For functionalists, the family creates well-integrated members of society and teaches culture to the new members of society.
  • Explain the social functions of the family through the perspective of structural functionalism

• Sexual Orientation

  • Sexual orientation describes an enduring pattern of attraction—emotional, romantic, sexual, or some combination of these—to the opposite sex, the same sex, both, or neither.
  • Each interpretation of sexuality manages our understanding of what sexual orientation means in different ways, particularly when combined with political debates about homosexuality.
  • Organizations that subscribe to the static interpretation of sexual orientation fall on both sides of the political divide.
  • The idea that sexual orientation is not a choice, but that rather one is born with an assigned orientation, is pervasive in popular conceptions of sexual orientation.
  • Explain the development of sexual orientation (heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual or asexual) in terms of both static and fluid sexuality

• Gender Roles in the U.S.

  • The following section seeks to orient the reader to the sociological theorization of the gender role and discuss its application in an American context.
  • One main thread in discussions about gender roles in the United States has been the historical evolution from a single-income family, or a family unit in which one spouse (typically the father) is responsible for the family income, to a dual-income family, or a family unit in which both spouses generate income.
  • In 1955, sociologist Talcott Parsons developed a model of nuclear families in the United States that addressed gender roles.
  • Family structures vary across cultures and history, and the term nuclear family refers to a family unit of two parents and their children.
  • Parsons developed two models of gender roles within the nuclear family.

• Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

  • Gemeinschaft ("community") is an association in which individuals are mainly oriented to the will of the larger group, generally more than their own self-interest.
  • These associations are marked by what Tönnies called "unity of will. " He saw the family as the most perfect expression of Gemeinschaft; however, he also expected that Gemeinschaft could be based on shared place and shared belief as well as kinship, and included globally dispersed religious communities as possible examples of Gemeinschaft.
  • Gemeinschaften ("communities") are broadly characterized by a moderate division of labor, strong personal relationships, strong families, and relatively simple social institutions.
  • A modern business is a good example of Gesellschaft: the workers, managers, and owners may have very little in terms of shared orientations or beliefs, or they may not care deeply for the product they are making, but it is in all their self interest to come to work to make money, and, therefore, the business continues.
  • Unlike Gemeinschaften ("communities"), Gesellschaften ("societies") emphasize secondary relationships rather than familial or community ties, and there is generally less individual loyalty to the larger community.

• The Nature of a Family

  • As a unit of socialization, the family is the object of analysis for certain scholars.
  • In sociological literature, the most common form of this family is often referred to as a nuclear family.
  • A "matrilocal" family consists of a mother and her children.
  • Common in the western societies, the model of the family triangle, where the husband, wife, and children are isolated from the outside, is also called the oedipal model of the family.
  • As a unit of socialization, the family is the object of analysis for sociologists of the family.

• Family Structures

  • Over half of American families are remarried, that is 75% of marriages ending in divorce, remarry.
  • Over half of American families are remarried, that is 75% of marriages ending in divorce, remarry.
  • Over half of American families are remarried, that is 75% of marriages ending in divorce, remarry.
  • In some circumstances, the extended family comes to live either with or in place of a member of the nuclear family.
  • An American family composed of the mother, father, children, and extended family.