Family

In an attempt to challenge societal values, youth cultures, in the form of rebellion, act and dress radically and form groups in protest. These dissident actions against the structure of existing society promotes the beginning of new small groups which reflect their own rules, structures, class, gender and ethnic ideologies. So, the youth culture, in…

Introduction Quaker Oats and their family of products have been a part of our everyday life for decades. It is the first registered trademark for a breakfast cereal. Both former owners, Henry Seymour and William Heston, claimed to have selected the Quaker name as a symbol of good quality and honest value. History of Quaker…

Women, for many years were kept hidden inside the dusty den of depravity. They were not allowed to go to a school. Home was their world. Outside world were meant only for men, the bread-earners of a family. Hence, they were wrapped by such a murky life that they remained disregarded for many years. But…

The definitions may have some similarities but they have changed dramatically in many more ways. 50 years ago, families had rules that were stricter and families were closer in the sense of a relationship. Although some families today are more distant from each other and have fewer rules to maintain order, there are still some…

Communication is a fundamental part of the Common Core: it provides us with a link between people and it involves listening, questioning, understanding and responding to what is being expressed by children and young people, in the design and delivery of services and decisions that affect them. Communication is not just about the words we…

Just An Easy Fix? “How does it feel, to be on your own, with no direction home, like a rolling stone?” -Bob Dylan Lois Stavsky quotes, “It can’t feel good. Especially when you’re only a teenager, barely past the years where life should be a comforting cocoon, and just before the age when you are…

If two people love each other enough to get married, and together choose to form a lifelong commitment, why are so many of these marriages ending? What does marriage mean to people nowadays and why do people decide to get married? Records show us that people have been getting married for as long as the…

During the middle to late 1800’s, thousands upon thousands of Americans, as well as foreigners, flocked to the mid-western part of the United States. They flocked to this area hoping to gain free or cheap land promised to them by the United States Government. Most of the “pioneers” left cities and factory jobs to venture…

While reading the September 1999 issue of Social Work: Journal of the National Association of Social Workers, I came across an article entitled Symbolic Interactionism, African American Families and the Transracial Adoption Controversy. It was written by Leslie Doty Hollingsworth PhD, the assistant professor in the school of social work at the University of Michigan….

.. ctions may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke. (p. 42). This statement could be seen as derogatory of Elizabeth, but if viewed from Darcy’s point of view it can as well be his honest opinion that one should not make fun of and take lightly everything…