Comparative Family Systems

noted that the definitions beliefs and distinction between families and marriages have cultural significances that are related to issues of lineage (Cherlin 142). This work aims at comparative highlight the American and Jordanian families in terms of marriages and divorce. It focuses on contrasting the two cultures and highlight on subtleties of difference within Jordan. Marriage and divorce Sociological perspectives on a family Based on the sociological paradigms sociological perspectives of what constitutes a family are explained using critical sociology symbolic interactionism and functionalism. For example Symbolic interactionism theories maintain that a family is a group in which each participant view himself or herself as family members and act accordingly (Julia 58). That is a family is a group in which individuals come together with a purpose of forming group connections making emotional ties between themselves over a long period of time. Therefore families may potentially comp...