Below you will find every catergory the teacher wants you to write about. NOw you will also find my instructions on what exactly to talk about for each one. You will also need to make up the rest but I am going to give you some guidelines to follow.
IMPORTANT FACT= This papaer is to be written as if a 24 year old boy PORTUGUESE and IRISH decent. I am extremely more portugese. I am 80% portugese and the rest irish and I have very pale skin and red hair.
ROLES-Roles are repetitive patterns of individual behavior and serve functional purposes in
day to day family life. Roles delineate the family’s structure and maintain the designation
and also provides guidelines for “normal family” behavior. (You can make up something here. Portugese men are toxic and like to have control)
POWER- Power can be defined as the degree of influence or control family members have over each other. The use of power and its distribution among family members is very important to understand family interactional patterns. (You can address power and roles at the same time but talk and make this up about how both grandpas are very power hungery and they think they can treat the women in the family how ever and thats why i find myself more comfortable with women because they are nicer. Please bullshit this)
COMMMUNICATION – Communication is concerned with the delivery and reception of verbal
and nonverbal information between family members. It includes skills in exchanging
patterns of information within the family system. It also involves communication about how
family member should relate or react to outsiders particularly as this relates to racial
differences ( my father who was more than half portugese and the rest irish was very great at communication but everyone else isnt very good you can make stuff up)
SUBSYSTERMS – Subsystems or subgroupings within the family and how they maintain the
family system are important. The types of subsystems include the parent, spouse, and sibling
groups, and the alliances between and among the members of the groups (my parents me and then I have an older sister who is a hald sister we have different dads. it was me and my dad against the world so you can talk about that and also my sister wasnt around because shes a troubled child loves alcohol and drugs)
FAMILY RULES – are another aspect of subgroupings within the family functioning that
helps to define and give identity to the family’s culture. Rules are part of every relationship,
and family rules are the dynamic components of the family’s organization. The obvious
rules govern who takes out the garbage, who mows the lawn, who does which housecleaning
tasks and the like, but numerous rules of a more subtle nature exist. The are internalized
implicit regulations that maintain a family’s system functioning (you can make this up )
FAMILY MYTHS – a family myth is part if the pervasive ideology of the family that evolves
from the interaction of the family’s rituals, roles and rules. Family myths provide us with a
vehicle to understanding a family’s ideology or how the family and its members frame
reality. ( Not too sure about this one you can make it up and maybe say how my family believes that if you die and youre catholic you can go to heaven.)
FAMILY RITUALS- Family rituals can be defined as a prescribed procedure of family
interaction that involves a pattern of defined behavior which is directed toward some specific
end or purpose and acquires rigidity and a sense of rightness as a result of its continuing
history. The ritual is a central component of family culture. Looking into aspects of family
ritualistic behavior can be very helpful in understanding the rules, regulations, and beliefs
systems of family culture milieu. It is helpful to focus first on yearly rituals such as holiday celebration, birthdays, church ceremones and the like and sometimes called customary rituals or cultural ceremonies. (On fathers day i would spend time with my dad at santa cruz my parents even took me there when my mom was pregnant. Christmas is a mess because my parents are divorced so my dad would always open presents christmas eve. I dont know you can make stuff up)
Please let me know if you have any questions.
