Decline in Breakdown of Families
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Question One
Breakdowns in families present family decline because of cultural changes. The drop gets about because of increasing cases of divorce, poor parenting, teenage pregnancy and changing gender roles in different cultures. The focuses on other activities in the current environment that make people delay their marriages or shift build on families contribute to the decline. The family change perspective, on the other hand, argues that change is inevitable and the linear point of view of families from the historical time, families were and still get break up by different factors.
Family as an institution is perceived from various dimensions through the social family perspective. Family is still considered as a significant body and is only subjected to change as society changes. Functionalist perspective views family as a part of the society that is dependent on other aspects of the society. It is like a chain, where one point depends on another and all contribute to the other to produce order, stability, and productivity. Conflict perspective on its part focuses on the negatives other than the positives that other aspects focus on. This view argues that the society forces values in the family institution. Ever changing society values and family as an institution is contributed by the differences that exist within the society.
Question Two
Functionalist theory view educations as a practice for transmitting culture through exposing individuals to different cultures, norms and various practices of the society. Education promotes social and political integration, and on functionalist perspective, societal stability and consensus is contributed by educations that foster societal integration and collective identity. School facilitates students to acquire self-management behaviors and to develop self-respect and ability to negotiate in situations. The theory also expresses that education from students as agents of change as they find avenues to share their divergent views, cultures, and traditions.
The conflict theory presents education as an avenue for the domination of the elite, a view different from other perspectives. The theory argues that education mold students through values designed to the powerful and the behavior that they deem fit for the pupils. It argues that the education standards are lowered by decreasing credentials and increasing number of occupations. The theorists also believe that education preserve societal class difference and discriminatory treatment of students through from generation to another. Feminists on their part believe that women are discriminated upon even through materials used for educational purpose, stereotyping, unequal funding, and biases. They believe that women are modeled to fulfill the desires prescribed within the systems.
Education is considered highly bureaucratic because of different aspect of it. Teachers undergo various stresses and experience as students negate their attraction to the occupation. Different subcultures are formed within schools that people have to conform to irrespective of their initial cultures. Education is dictated by the levels of authorities whose difference fall on avenues of making their powers, as either by the people, customs, or law.
Question Three
Thomas Robert Malthus’ general theory regarding population and population control suggest that rapid population growth leads to dangerous food shortage that even if food production raises it will not sustain everyone. The critique of the population growth believes that the control of the population growth will help reduce possible social problems. Thomas suggested controlled breeding as population control method. Malthusian theory can be used to justify and implement the movement of eugenics and techniques of social control such as forced sterilization, and mandated birth control as it advocates for controlled population growth to reduce social problems.