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Sociology and the Social Sciences

   

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Running head: SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL SCIENCESociology and Social ScienceName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note

1SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL SCIENCEThe Reasons Why Family Is Considered To Be the Most Important Agent of SocializationSocialization is a vital process by which every human beings learn to interact with otherswithin the society, socializing with others and various experiences that a person goes throughthroughout his/her lifetime determines their individual personality. Human beings are born socialbeings, from their very birth the humans are biologically designed as such that they have tointeract with others to express their feelings thoughts and wishes, in that way a person learns tocommunicate with others (Jennings & Niemi, 2015). To survive in a society one has to learnabout the social ways and norms and how one should behave with others. Family is therepresentation of the entire society in a minimal scale, thus families are the most important agentof socialization. In a family there are some rules and regulation that one has to follow, the familyis governed by the elders and others has to follow the rules accordingly, while growing up undersuch an environment an individual learns how a society behaves (Meyer et al., 2014).Additionally while growing up in a family an individual also learns moral and ethical values,certain skills and religious beliefs. An individual learn about responsibilities and duties thathe/she has towards society from their respective families. Thus, family is the most importantmedium through which a person learns socialization.The causes of dramatic changes in the American familiesOver the last fifty years, there have been dramatic changes that have occurred in theAmerican families, it has changed a lot in terms of the relationships, families and also fromcertain societal perspectives. There are several causes that have led to the changes in theAmerican families. Earlier during the time of Second World War a lot of women by the timethey reached the end of their child bearing age had given birth to two or more children, this notthe case now (Galvin, Braithwaite & Bylund, 2015). Nowadays stress is given to control the

2SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL SCIENCEpopulation thus most of the families have one or two children thus this had led to the birth ofnuclear and smaller families (Coontz, 2016). The introduction of various methods ofcontraception and other birth controlling methods has also reduced the birth rate. The growing rate of education in women have also affected the modern families, most ofthe women nowadays is employed and thus their dependency upon their male counterparts isless, thus if they lack compatibility most of the marriages end up in divorce thus leading to theconcept of single mothers and often children grow up without a family.Due to the advancements in the scientific field and busy lifestyles of the individuals theconcept of artificial insemination has become more popular, if a woman wants to raise a childwithout having a partner she can do it by adopting artificial pregnancy. The scientificadvancements have a huge impact on the changes that have occurred in the modern families.Differences in Marriage and Family Life that are linked to Class, Race, Gender, and Personal ChoiceThe family life, marriage and relationships depend upon the several social factors such asthe class of an individual, the race to which the person belongs to, gender and even individualpersonal choice also impact marriage and family. The people who belong to the poor class, theyare unable to sustain their livelihood alone thus they have a lot of members in their family andtheir prospect of marriage is also comparatively low, while the rich people have nuclear familiesas they are able to sustain their families on their own. According to the different races present inthe society, it has been observed that the African American people face high risk of divorce andlow marital rate than that of the White and the Mexican people (Newman, 2018). This differenceoccurs chiefly due to the higher rate of poverty among the Black and Hispanic race. Thinking

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