SOCIAL GROUPS (FAMILY)

Social Groups (Family)



Social Groups (Family)

Though many people choose to view themselves as unique and one of a kind, sociologists work against that idea to show connections between groups of people. My family has accomplished rank, which is a social position attained by person through their own efforts, in my town and I have used that to get certain jobs. Achieved rank is just one example of how we can all be classified into a certain sociological group. By analyzing my family I found out that it was an natural environment where all constituents combined and this depicted a small assembly.

My mother's edge of the family is mostly Irish, and displays heritage relativism in so far as the use relatives' activities to harden their own decisions. My relations depict the usual image of an Irish family. Every St. Patrick's Day is a large-scale happening in my house, almost more significant than Christmas, it seems. By the time the simmered dinner is put on the table, most of the relatives have had their equitable share of beer and are squawking like a assortment of chickens. I find this ritual interesting as it greatly displays diffusion from a little known Irish saint to a world recognized event.

Although, my parents are separated and my father remarried, my sister, who's fifteen, and I still manage to take up an identical allowance of traits from both groups. Agood way to examine what traits a individual exhibitions, is to observe their everyday patterns and mind-set, in their personality. When farther looking at the behaviors me and my sister come by from our parents, it can be traced more distant back to their parents and so on and so forth. I believe it is in this way that traditions are carried on and therefore shows ...