Functionalism

Functionalism is a theory based on agreement and consequences, systems such as education ,family and law that are combined to work together to create a harmonious society. A normal view of a family is define as a mother and the biological father in which eventually they will have kids and all live under the same roof and certainly the dad going off to work while the mom stay home and be a housewife. My family goes by the Cavero family. We are hispanic and black background. My mother side is from a country name Peru with many different cultures and beliefs on the west coast of South America. My father was born and raised in the United States and comes from an African American culture. In our household we have many habits and culture beliefs in which in many aspects it could be consider taboo. “People who marry have, in effect two families. One is the family of orientation, the family in which one grows up”(252).The second family is known as the family of procreation which establishes through marriage. There are three sociological perspective. Symbolic Interactionism is a micro level analysis in which focus in face to face interactions. The second perspective is functionalism and its at a macro level this perspective focus in relationship between the parts of society and how aspects of society are functional. Conflict theory is the last perspective and its at a macro level and it consist of competition for scarce resources and how the elite control the poor and weak. In my family every year we have a celebration celebrating the close relatives or love ones that have passed away and left from this earth. In the general perspective about an average family the celebration my family organize every year could most likely be taboo in other eyes and cultures. Death is known to be a serious matter and a time that families keep their comments and celebration to themselves in memory of that special someone. Family composition is classified in two different type in