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INSTRUCTIONS
After reading chapters 2&3 please answer the following questions
1.This chapter discusses collectivistic and individualistic cultures. Reflect on your own family’s values. Are they more collectivistic or iindividualistic?
2. In reflecting on Family Systems Theory, what is one life experience you have had within your family that you can apply to Family System Theory? How did it impact you but also those around you? This can be a positive or negative experience.
please write your reply on this peer’s post:
1. I think my family is definitely an individualistic family. We all have our own goals and aspirations and even from a young age my parents gave me a lot of freedom to kind of figure things out on my own as I went about in life. I come from a family of 6 siblings and we were all cut off financially from leisure things at the age of 14. In doing this they taught us that if we wanted something we had to work for it. Yeah they still supported us, the food on the table, a place to sleep and the neccesities in life but if we wanted a phone, or the new game that was out or to do stuff on the weekends they made us get jobs to pay for those kind of things oursleves and I was very critical of that early on in my teenage years but when I look back im very thankful for it and appreciate them more for it. The individualistic family culture taught me how to be my own independent person financially as well as socially. Helping me build my self worth and self esteem and own personally relationships with people outside of my family.
2. I can apply the family systems theory to my family in the way holidays are ran in the family now. So typically during thanksgiving and christmas and the holiday season, that was ran by my great aunt, great grandma and my grandma. They always were the ones putting stuff together in terms of the thanksgiving dinner, christmas get together, secret santa etc. They both passed away in the span of less than a year apart and now the only one left than ran things is my grandma. She cant do that all by herself so now as a family collectively we all chip in and put the holiday functions together as a collective group and it has made us closer to one another after losing the backbones to our family. It used to be during the holidays “when do I show up” but now it’s “what’s my part in the process.”
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