Family Dynamics: Social Constructs, Diversity, and Role Impacts

This essay delves into the multifaceted significance of family in an individual's life, exploring its definition as a social group encompassing various generations. It examines the influence of social constructs like gender, time, money, and status on family values and experiences, with a particular focus on gender roles in modern society. The essay further investigates family diversity, including indigenous and pre-industrial family systems, highlighting their unique characteristics and historical contexts. It analyzes the roles of men and women within the family, emphasizing the impact of patriarchy and the evolving dynamics of shared responsibilities. Finally, the essay considers the consequences of these roles on children, exploring the contrasting experiences of single-child families versus those with siblings and the implications for their social and emotional development. The essay concludes with a list of relevant references.

FAMILY

Introduction
■ This assignment is about the significance of family in an individual's life.
■ Family is defined as the social group of individuals including grandparents, parents,
uncles, aunts and children.
■ Social constructs are the concepts of human interaction and occurs due to objective
reality.
■ Herein, social constructs like gender, time, money, status etc. has an impact on the
family values and overall experience.
■ Gender is the social construct which gives information about the gender differences in
the communities on the whole.

Factors for Gender as social construct
■ Today's twenty-first century, this includes about the roles based on gender on the basis
of society and culture.
■ Gender is the structural layout of social interaction of the reproductive systems.
■ This social construct outlined the differences among the roles and responsibilities.
■ Masculinity and Femininity are the notions that have no objective reality but assist in
formulation of gender identities.
■ For example: Gender pay gap where men are paid better when compared to women.

FAMILY DIVERSITY
■ Indigenous and Tribal family is defined as the group of people who are termed as native
peoples, first nations or aboriginal peoples.
■ This is important to understand the beginning of migration in a country.
■ The first people called as Anglo Saxons who shifted from Southern Denmark and
Northern Germany to the Eastern and Southern parts of the Great Britain.
■ Moreover, there is no indigenous Briton and is refereed as a superficial logic.

PRE-INDUSTRIAL DIVERSITY
■ This is refereed as the family system based on economics and the inherited property that
has been passed on to the forthcoming generations.
■ This lies between the 1600-1800 centuries and consisted of many children.
■ Men were the family head and women as the family providers.
■ Social class with the impact of differences on the basis of region and family's
background led to variations in the living standards.
■ This also impacted the lives of people included in pre-industrialized families.

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
ORGANISATIONAL DIVERSITY AND
FAMILY
Role of men
■ Men on the whole has more powers due to the concept of patriarchy.
■ They play the role of providers in terms of fulfilling the necessities of life and giving a standard of living.
■ They are the authoritative figures who takes all the decisions without any biasses due to gender pay gaps.
■ For kids, they play central contributing part by being affectionate and male them realise the worldly
affairs.
■ They guide and mentor and help their kids to continue education and get married without worrying about
the financial assistance.
■ They have understood the role of women in their lives and now gradually sharing responsibilities in doing
the household chores.

ROLE OF WOMEN
■ Women are the makers of homes; they turn any structure into homely feeling.
■ They are the nurturers who gives birth to kids and protect them with complete dedication.
■ With feminism and current financial powers, there is a radical shift which also gave women a platform to
earn livelihood.
■ They have also started earning and making their kids world better through economic aspects.
■ This gives a strong message among families that each individual must contribute together in the upliftment
of the status of family in the society.
■ They not only help the kids to understand between rights and wrongs but also assist in building their
personalities.
■ Their inclusion is more prominent than the men due to the biological attributes and the ability to connect
with the kids due to the psychological aspects that they established during nine months tenure of pregnancy.

IMPACT OF ROLES ON CHILDREN
■ Single child
■ Both parents pamper the child and this might prove harmful or beneficial.
■ The kid either becomes responsible or become careless
■ Single child gets pampering from both dad and mom and thus, they are pampered with
utmost attention and this makes self centre and selfish as well.
■ When they are taught to live in social manner, they become selfless and giving in nature

Cont..
■ With siblings
■ This also prove both advantageous or disadvantageous in terms of overall development.
■ Siblings act as friends and enemies as well and teach each other the importance of team
work from childhood
■ There is development of characteristics like sharing, understanding emotions of others
and mingling nature
■ Also, this helps in knowing the importance of another human in more all round manner.

REFERENCES
■ Burck, C., 2018. Gender and family therapy. Routledge.
■ Crone, P., 2015. Pre-industrial societies: Anatomy of the pre-modern world. Oneworld
Publications.
■ Kuhnlein, H.V., 2017. Gender roles, food system biodiversity, and food security in
Indigenous Peoples' communities. Maternal & child nutrition.13. p.e12529.
■ Widmer, E.D., 2016. Family configurations: A structural approach to family diversity.
Routledge.

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