Family_Ecology

Family Ecology Comparing Families A family is “any sexually expressive or parent child relationship in which people are usually related by ancestry, by marriage, or adoption who form an economic unit and care for any young”. There are several theoretical perspectives involving the family unit, which aid sociologists in the way that the family is viewed. Each theory has its own significance in regard to better understanding families. However, this paper will focus on the Family Ecology perspective. This theory will be applied to the vignette involving Harry and Antoinette Creamy. Their family life will be compared and contrasted to my family life. The Family Ecology Theory is “how Families are influenced and influence the environments around them. Families are interdependent on their neighborhood, social, and physical environment”. Basically the perspective explores the families development being affected by the environment it resides in. .The interaction a family has with three major environments has a large impact upon that institution. The neighborhood they reside in, their social environment, and their physical environment influence the family. The neighborhood that the family lives in has a very large impact upon the workings of the family. For example, many families must cope with the threat of violence in their family, neighborhood, antoinette, environment, harry, social, families, now, affected, time, life, physical, grandparents, unit, same, people, part, over, live, affects, while, violence, theory, lived, large, home, care, years, south, shop, philadelphia, one, married, lives, impact, ecology