Not all families are always the ideal ones, but they always offer the initial social bond, which allows experience and familiarization with community in an indirect way. ... Family is the stepping stone for community and Tonnies helped me understand family and its importance. ... Family is community and community is family. ... What is meant by applying yourself is developing that family of your own, whether it is immediate family or communal family. ... This outlook leads to bigger communities known as nations, but in their own rights possess the same characteristics of social bon...

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Traditional Families: Fact or Fiction Family is defined by those who live it and does not always consists of a husband, wife, and children and all family units are directly influenced by historical, social, and economic expectations. Today's families can be same-sex couples, groups of related or unrelated people, or any group of people that have a common bond. ... Historically traditional American families consisted of a husband, wife, and possibly children where everyone understood their roles within the family. ... Today's social influences surround the family on all sides. ... In...

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The Family and Divorce The family is one of the foundational social institutions in all societies. Through out time the definition of family has varied. ... Families have less connection in the new age, as opposed to when farm land, money issues, and businesses held a family together. ... People often take part in cohabitation before entering a bond of marriage. ... Dual income in the family was highly uncommon and unrealistic. ...

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Hirschi also presented us with the term "social bond" that he labeled as things that keep people from committing criminal acts. There are four main attributes to the social bond; attachment, commitment, involvement, and beliefs. ... The first bond, attachment, refers to a person's sensitivity to and interest in others (Hirshi 1969). ... Hirschi also noted that he found that one's attachment to parents and school overshadows the bond formed with one's peers. ... The third bond is involvement. ...

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An individual's relationship to friends, family, school and work makes them less susceptible to the temptations of committing criminal acts. In contrast, crime and delinquency becomes the outcome when a person's bond to society and institutions is weak. ... In response to the previous social bond theories, I created the Home Visiting Theory. ... After the bond and trust is build, learning can begin. The home visitation theory will be very useful to any type of family. ...

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If the bond between the audience is weak is almost just a as beneficial to a strong bond, sociologists say that it expands your ability to solve problems because the weaker bond allows you to view things (Thompson 589). ... Ambient awareness and microblogging go hand and hand in creating profiles of family, friends, and other online users, " Each little update -- each individual bit of social information-- is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends' and fam...

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They vary between one family and the next. ... We see families as units that are indestructible, constantly supportive, and held together by a bond that cannot change or be broken. ... Breakdowns between families, particularly between parents and children, are a common occurrence in today's hostile world. ... Real families do not always follow the perfect ideals that television demands of them. ... These feelings may evolve into resentfulness and result in a break in once close family ties. ...

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Growing up in a Vietnamese family, I have a vivid memory of Vietnamese coffee. ... Families often gather together, watching TV and drinking coffee at home on Saturday afternoons. ... Food acts as a mean of showing and strengthening the bond and relationship between people. ... They are the upper class of the hierarchy in this family social group. ... My memory and preference relating to Vietnamese coffee is strongly related to the bond between me, my family and friends. ...

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Those friends and family members know that there is no other alternative to say I need your help, can you lend me some money. ... Few and far in between are the friends and family members that I can trust to confide in with my thoughts of antagonism, happiness, and gratification; however, those individuals who I choose to disclose my inter most significant point of view must always bear in mind the trust of friendship bestowed upon them; has helped me out a lot to be able to talk to my loved ones who in return will me their trust and succor to bond a relationship of values; Some might say bett...

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Unfortunately too many families have no other option than to leave their children in the care of a childcare center in order to be able to provide for the financial needs of the family. ... However, this is not the average family lifestyle nowadays. ... Parents have a special bond with their children, and in most cases are best qualified to raise their children and develop their sense of values and morals. ... Family is a basic need and is essential for surviving in our society. Hopefully over the next few decades the American family will take a closer look at how the care of their children w...

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Those in a sanakuya relationship may treat one another as if close family members with whom familiar jokes or humorous insults and intermarriages are exchanged. ... They promised to give the baby to the Kromah family for a wife when she grows. Immediately he ordered, "Any member of the Kromah family in possession of the sheep in question, produce it now! ... From the beginning to the end of my experiment, people at the occasion were laughing at the unique situation, which embarrassed the Kamara family. ... In conclusion, my finding was to get a wife for the Kromah family's posterity ...

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The relationships between the women of Ibo society is extremely important, it ensures stability in the social structure of the families and shows just how strong the bond between mother and daughter can be. ... Here Achebe uses Ezinma as the focal point from which a vivid demonstration of tribal bonding is portrayed. ...

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Each theory, however, seeks to understand the ways in which all of the different components of society, from individual relationships to social institutions such as schools, workplaces, and the position one has in their family, impact the existence of society. ... Everyone at the College of Charleston came here with a common bond: to learn and obtain an education from one of the top liberal schools in the Southeast. ...

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Another major issue being created by this social problem is the breaking of the traditional family structure. ... There is a weakened bond of kinship, and declining social family significance as America has transferred industrial, educational and recreational activities to specialized institutions outside of the home. It is depriving families of their most characteristic, historical functions. ... With single parent families, children lack in the authority department due to the lack of the amount of time their parents have free to raise them. ... Also the lack of the traditional family structu...

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Pushes can come from troubled psyches, or stressful circumstances outside the individual, whereas pulls can be from family, friends, etc. ... Hirschi's a bit different with the social bond theory. ...

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The things that make up a person's culture are their beliefs, religion, clothing, diet, education, nationality, family system, attitude, values, and social class. ... This difference is a big one as most American children stay with a babysitter or family member while their parents are at work or at certain ages, they are left on their own. ... I believe these differences have strengthened my children, they have strong value in themselves, they know they can turn to us whenever they need, they do well in school to have a bright future, and have a strong bond with us. ...

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Once the bond are force that bind people are loosened, violation of the social norm occurs. When the norm bond that people have to their friend, parent and other significant social institution in the society, are strong they fear to take the risk of losing important values in the society. ... The high level of poverty in the surrounding causes critical social institutions that are associated with the drop out of school and the family disintegration. ... Also the institutions in particular society greatly define the interference of social norms, examples of these are the families, schools, poli...

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Hirschi's Social Control Theory proposes that if our bond with society is broken, in one way or another, then we will most likely become deviant, or withdrawn from society. ... [pg. 1] So needless to say he is known by the criminal world, strengthening his bond to the criminal world, and weakening his bond to the non-criminal world. ...

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Love, family, community, wisdom and others are what will bring a person and the world a better life. ... Through Mitch's descriptive language telling us and describing the amount of family photographs around Morrie's house shows us how Morrie puts great emphasis and importance on family. ... Morrie has a very warm and close relationship with his family, hence he is happy but at the same time Mitch is distant and vastly separated from his family. ... We as the reader as persuaded to react in the same way, because Mitch is the narrator with whom we are encouraged to bond with and adopt...

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The movie is about a 74-year old widow named Oh Mal-Soon who is living a normal life with her son's family. ... This detail proved that Vietnam still promote patriarchy in the family. ... Although, in Korea, some families still allow elderly people live with, but it mostly happens in the countryside. ... Not like in Vietnam, family members are usually bond to each other. Vietnamese people promote the value of respect for the elder in family. ...

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(Criminology, 4 Nov. 1999) The social bond that ties a population together, makes the population, therefore suggesting that a common person who is brought up to be a law abiding citizen with exceptional parenting, will also become a law abiding citizen and good person thereof. ... Hirschi's social control takes the social bond * peer delinquency * delinquency. Whereas, Sutherland's study was conclusive of the social bond * peer delinquency * definitions * delinquency. ... Household incomes were also varied by the demographic and family responsibilities. ...

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I remember those good old days. I usually just sat around and did what I wanted to do. Of course I did mischief things. I was a kid. My friends and I sometimes break a few things and do things that we are not suppose to do. Yeah, I remember those good old days. I was just finding all sorts of ways t...

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There are many problems with the socialization of children under the age of six when factors such as family life, the media and their peers come into play. ... When a child swears, acts violent, or misbehaves in any way then a parent who immediately reprimands the child with a calm and easygoing voice will be better understood and listened to by the child, as well as develop a more caring bond. ...

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"Got my own mind, I want to make my own decisions; when it has to do with my own life, I wanna be the one in control.' These lyrics, sung by Janet Jackson, hold similar ideas that tie into social control theory. The song talks about being in control of one's own life and the choices they make. Those...

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The Victorian family in this text are portrayed severely and are seen to be subjected to values that essentially cause the disintegration of both family life and human relationships. ... Harriett and the Frean family live in a large, prosperous house in an area with other similar minded people. ... The Frean family look down upon him, regardless of the money that should elevate his position. ... To take a Marxist view, perhaps it is the pressures of maintaining a family that keeps Mr. ... This bond is both mental (as she cannot form an opinion for herself - it is her father's ideals and b...

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