Aging of the family

 Prompt: Write a blog post analyzing your chosen familial trend (Aging of the family) using the three relevant sociological perspectives: conflict perspective, functionalism perspective, and symbolic interactionism perspective. Sociologists use paradigms, or sociological theories, to help explain social life. For example, a functionalism theorist might look at the changing mealtime experience in purely structural terms. Quite simply, a family may be unable to coordinate its schedule to allow for time together at a common meal because of work, technology, and other commitments. However, a symbolic interactionist may analyze this changing family dynamic by asking how families have come to define food and communication. Or a conflict theorist might point to disparities and hunger as core reasons families are not eating meals together. This blog post will serve to help you look at your familial topic from the three core sociological perspectives and be useful to you as you compose your magazine article’s section on theory. Use the final project’s Sociological Analysis (section III) to guide your writing. Specifically the following critical elements must be addressed: III. Sociological Analysis: You will now analyze your chosen scenario, using the three relevant sociological perspectives: conflict perspective, functionalism perspective, and symbolic interactionism perspective. A. Apply the conflict perspective to explain why the familial trend (aging of the family) affects families differently. Apply this perspective specifically to your previous comparisons to explain any differences in how the trend affects cultures. If there were not any differences, use the perspective to explain generally why different families have different experiences. B. Apply the functionalist perspective to explain the benefit of the familial trend(aging of the family) on society. How does the familial trend(aging of the family) influence the family dynamic and therefore positively influence other social institutions and society as a whole? C. Apply the symbolic interactionist perspective to analyze how families define their meaning and how this definition changes. How does symbolic interactionist theory explain the ways that families define themselves and how this definition evolves? Guidelines for Submission: Your blog must be submitted as four to six cohesive paragraphs, with double spacing, 12‐point Times New Roman font, and at least three sources cited in APA format.