The Family in Globalization

Etymological Conception of the Family

According to scientists, there are several versions that provide
account of the etymological origin of the word family, without there being
true unity of criteria regarding this aspect, some consider
that the word Family comes from the Latin familiae, which means
group of servants and slaves belonging to the chief of the clan.

Family Forms
The form or structure, as well as the role of the family, varies according to the
society. With all the nuclear family (man and woman, with their children)
it is the main unit of societies. In some others
communities, the core is made up like a big family, with
grandparents and other relatives. A third family unit is the family
single-parent, in which the children live only with the father or with the
mother in a situation of singlehood, widowhood or divorce.

Concept of Family from Different Disciplines

The real conception of the family is not simple, therefore its study
it must be approached from an integrative perspective,
that allows it to be observed and understood as it is presented in the
reality, that is, under a holistic phenomenological understanding that
reveal your true identity, dynamics and development, including
all the aspects that are separately the subject of study by each
discipline.

Biological Concept

As a biological fact, Family implies living together

two individuals of the human species, of different sexes, united with
the end of reproduction, and therefore of conserving the species through
of time.
They are the purposes of the Family, under this Aspect:
Multiplication with the corresponding addition of new
individuals to society.
Generate in the couple the state of total enjoyment of their functions.
sexual.
Provide children with a firm and experiential concept of
sexual model, that allows them in the future in their life, to do
clear and appropriate identification of their sexual roles.
Perpetuate the human species in time and space.

Psychological Concept
For Psychology, the family implies a multitude of relationships.
families integrated primarily in a systemic way, which is
considered a social subsystem that is part of the macro system
social referred to as society; those relationships are considered as
a fundamental element in the development process of the
personality.

The purposes of the Family, under this Aspect:

Provide each and every one of its members with security in the
affective field.
Prepare its members for the development of adaptive processes.
• Create daily habits and behavioral management with
responsibility.
Manage crises, anxiety, and in general under appropriate schemes.
the emotions and frustrations, through self-control.
Direct personal development towards independence.
Channel energies and manage impulses, violence, and authoritarianism.
Protect all its members and prepare them for independence.
through education and respect.
Sociological Concept
For sociology, the Family is constituted by a community
interhuman configured by at least three members, 'is a set
of people who are connected by familial ties. These ties
they can be of two types: bonds of affinity, marriage and
consanguinity as the affiliation between parents and children.

Observed for their historic-social importance, they have the

Family as Goals, in this Aspect:

Perpetuate customs, culture, and social identity.

Recognize and respect authority.
• Educate in language and written communication, as well as its use
of dialogue and in general of communication as a means of solution
of conflicts.
• Respect the norms of social convention and the particular ones of each
family nucleus.
Create an identification and tracking of roles and models
social behavior.
Create family and social networks for support and development
social.
Be an integral part of the basic social group.

Economic Concept
For the economy, the Family is studied more clearly when considering it.
as a 'small factory' (Becker G, cited by Miró Roca Solano,
P) constitutes an institution that bases its existence on forecasting
costs, monetary expenses and income, that entail for their members,
for example, to consider each child as consumer goods or as
generators in present investment expenses that are projected as
future investment, considering correlatively the income that is
they must perceive and assist in sickness and old age. For
previously it is believed that in the more developed countries there is a lower
birth rate.
The economic purposes of the family are:
To give all and each of its members economic security.
Provide all its members with the minimum material elements.
necessary to meet their basic needs.
Create a culture of saving and capital management,
allow to subsist and constantly strive for its development
economic.
Prepare each individual for their economic independence.
Teach the use and management of currency and the design of strategies
economic.

Legal Concept
From the legal sphere, the family has a connotation that is
subject to the regulations themselves and for the moment
historical context in which it is reviewed; the concept of family is dynamic and is in
constant evolution. The legal definition of this term will depend
of the legislation of each state or country, and is generally found
located in the constitution.

In any case, the family role and objectives from the aspect
fundamentally legal are:

• Create self-control habits and recognition of roles, norms and

authority.
• Respect rules and norms resulting from social conventions and
individuals.
Recognize the agreements and roles of parents and children with each other and with the
context, in the area of mutual responsibility.
Differentiate and respect the rights of all members of the
family and society, making a distinction between the members by
age, functions, location, and interests.
• Identify and fulfill the duties that correspond to them
members in their context.
Assume communication as the main prevention tool
and management or conflict resolution.
Types of family: There are different types of family and each one of
they respond to new realities. Having children, or maintaining ties
for all life is no longer as relevant as it was in the past. So
the same, new genres have emerged. If anything has changed in
The latest times is the family composition. Currently, there are
many types of family, diluting what we considered as
traditional structure. Until recently, it prevailed the
conventional composition, but this is no longer the case. The
Social transformations have occurred at a rapid pace. The truth is
There have been different types of families for a long time,
but only in the last few decades have they come to light and spread.
Extended Family: It is the type of family that predominated until
a few decades ago, it was composed of the father, the mother, and the children.
But also for the grandparents, the uncles, the cousins among others. No
it was rare that they lived in the same space and functioned in a
same unit.
Nuclear Family: It is a type of family that has been predominant until the
current situation although it is not an absolute majority. The nuclear family
represents a quarter of current families, it is the one made up of
for the father, the mother, and the children, does not include other relatives. But
it maintains the basic traditional structure.

3. Family with Separated Parents: It is a type of family that has

notably increased in recent times, corresponds to the
case where the parents are divorced, although each of them
continues to play its role in one way or another. In this case there is no
total absence of the parents, but rather a rupture in the cohabitation of
the same.
4. Extended Family: It includes the type of family that two
Separated individuals with children form a new core.
familiar. In this way, the children of each one become a
a sort of de facto siblings.
5. Single-Parent Family: It is another type of family that goes
increasing, we find the absolute lack of the
parents. Generally, it is the father who is not present, however
the number of cases where it is the mother who abandons him is increasing.
At home, it is very common for the burden to overflow onto the father.
present and this leads them to accept help from other people,
that also begin to have an important influence on
the children.

6. Adoptive Family: They are related to families that

they adopt children, either due to inability to conceive or for
conviction in this practice. They often form stable households
although there is a minority of these households in which the children
adopted ones are used only to meet expectations
socialize and do not receive all the affection they should have.

7. Family without Children: It is one of those family configurations

what comes in increase corresponds to couples who do not
those who decide not to have children or adopt them are usually people of status.
social and with high professional expectations, they do not believe that
the role of parents satisfies them and they see the couple as a
companion of my life and mainly of goals.
8. Homoparental Family: It is one of the new types of
family, this is one of the most innovative. Corresponds to
same-sex couples adopting a child and forming a
stable family nucleus. The existence of this type of family
it is still not legal in many countries.

9. Family of Elderly People: They take place when the

parents are left alone once their children become adults and
they leave the house. The couple that reaches this point usually
to form a very supportive and tolerant family.
10. Sole Proprietorship: It is one of those options that have...
unified, it is estimated that around 11% of families
current is of a personal nature, someone who decides to live
alone and configure their relationships with the world from that
position. Sometimes there are one-person people when the person
widowed or after a divorce following a union in which not
there were children.

11. Family with Pets: This type of family is very common.

of the so-called millennials or generation, where they turn into the
pets are a fundamental part of their lives almost as if it were
of children.

Brandon Alexis Amasifuen Saboya

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Technical Nursing