Group Home

Examples of Group Home in the following topics:

• Change in Household Size

  • Household models include the single family and blended family home, shared housing, and group homes for people with special needs.
  • A group home is a private residence designed to serve children or adults with chronic disabilities.
  • Group homes typically have a maximum of six residents and a trained, on-site caregiver available 24 hours a day.
  • Residents of group homes usually have either a chronic mental disorder or a physical disability that prevents them from living independently.
  • Since the 1970s, group homes have assumed the role of earlier institutions such as asylums, poorhouses, and orphanages.

• Homeschooling

  • Homeschooling is the education of children at home, rather than in other formal settings of public or private school.
  • "Homeschooling Achievement," a study conducted by National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI), a homeschooling advocacy group, supported the academic integrity of homeschooling.
  • Homeschooling is the education of children at home, rather than in the formal settings of public or private school.
  • Historically, before the advent of compulsory school attendance laws, most childhood education occurred at home or in the community.
  • "Homeschooling Achievement," a study conducted by National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI), an advocacy group, revealed the academic integrity of homeschooling.

• The Role of Socialization

  • Socialization prepares people for social life by teaching them a group's shared norms, values, beliefs, and behaviors.
  • The role of socialization is to acquaint individuals with the norms of a given social group or society.  
  • It prepares individuals to participate in a group by illustrating the expectations of that group.
  • Socialization is very important for children, who begin the process at home with family, and continue it at school.  
  • Socialization is also important for adults who join new social groups.

• Informal Means of Control

  • Informal controls are varied and differ from individual to individual, group to group, and society to society.
  • Informal controls differ from individual to individual, group to group, and society to society.
  • Secondary socialization takes place outside the home, where children and adults learn how to act in a way that is appropriate for the situations they are in.
  • A peer group is a social group whose members have interests, social positions, and age in common.
  • The influence of the peer group typically peaks during adolescence.

• The Conflict Perspective

  • According to conflict theory, society is defined by a struggle for dominance among social groups that compete for scarce resources.
  • Therefore, men can be seen as the dominant group and women as the subordinate group.
  • According to conflict theory, social problems are created when dominant groups exploit or oppress subordinate groups.
  • Conflict between the two groups caused things like the Women's Suffrage Movement and was responsible for social change.
  • Contemporary conflict theorists suggest that when women become wage earners, they gain power in the family structure and create more democratic arrangements in the home, although they may still carry the majority of the domestic burden.

• Child Socialization

  • For example if a child saw his or her mother expressing a discriminatory opinion about a minority group, then that child may think this behavior is acceptable and could continue to have this opinion about minority groups.
  • Secondary socialization refers to the process of learning what is the appropriate behavior as a member of a smaller group within the larger society.
  • Secondary socialization takes place outside the home.
  • Schools require very different behavior from the home, and children must act according to new rules.

• Homeschooling

  • Home schooling is the education of children at home rather than in the setting of a school.
  • Homeschooling is the education of children at home, typically by parents but sometimes by tutors, rather than in other formal settings of public or private school.
  • By enrolling part-time at a school, homeschooled students can study subjects such as foreign languages and sciences, which may be more difficult to teach at home.
  • Third, in other states homeschool requirements are based on a statute or group of statutes that specifically applies to homeschooling.
  • For example, in Virginia it is "home instruction," in South Dakota it is "alternative instruction," and in Iowa it is "competent private instruction. "

• Values as Binders

  • In the 1950s, few women worked outside the home.
  • As they did, many women confronted hostility, both at work and at home.
  • Critics worried that, without mothers at home, children would grow up to be criminals.
  • As a member of a society, group, or community, an individual can hold both a personal value system and a communal value system at the same time.
  • If a group member expresses a value that is in serious conflict with the group's norms, the group's authority may carry out various ways of encouraging conformity or stigmatizing the non-conforming behavior of its members.

• Minorities

  • The definition of a minority group can vary, depending on specific context, but generally refers to either a sub-group that does not form either a majority or a plurality of the total population, or a group that, while not necessarily a numerical minority, is disadvantaged or otherwise has less power (whether political or economic) than a dominant group.
  • The issue of establishing minority groups, and determining the extent of privileges they might derive from their status, is controversial.
  • The assimilation of minority groups into majority groups can be seen as a form of racism.
  • In this process, the minority group sheds its distinctive traits and is absorbed into the dominant group.
  • The adaptation is made more difficult when the immigrant does not speak the language of his or her new home.

• Social Isolation

  • We are programmed to live in some sort of group and interact with others.
  • Now, many elders are moved into elder homes with less frequent contact with their children.
  • However, many elder homes and retirement facilities are working to combat social isolation by increasing programming for their residents.