Your answer should also explore and critique past notions of the family in the UK. Introduce the main idea of Intergenerational Trauma-The Black Family. NOTES Historically, governments, regardless of their demography or political slant, base their family policies on the premise that the family is the most basic and fundamental social institution. Society depends on families to perform what it deems as essential tasks throughout its life cycle. Furthermore, society seemingly regards the family as the being the best social institution to carry out these functions. Families rear and emotionally nurture the next generation to be good citizens and productive members of society. +++Your introduction should include the statement The aim of this essay is to explore the impact that ******* has on contemporary family living in the UK. This essay seeks to problematize family life in its historical and contemporary UK context. Instructions: Font should be New Roman, Size 11, spacing line 1.5, reference should be included with page number. And check the spellings as well. Please could you put the page number of any reference you are using. And, minimum of 10 references, Harvard reference. Uk English. The front should Time Romans. Introduction: 350 words Body: 2300 words Conclusion: 350 words Word budget: 3000 words Not including the references. Trauma is the result of either undergoing or witnessing a horrific, violent event, or a series of events or circumstances the accumulated impact of which eventually results in trauma. The terror of violence is ultimately in that something that should not happen in the first placethe unthinkable, the unspeakablenevertheless occurs. Such an event is incomprehensible. One cannot understand what exactly is happening or why, and the event as such therefore does not enter the consciousness of its survivor or witness. Outside consciousness and thus outside of active remembrance the experience of a traumatic event is therefore defined by a constitutive forgetting or amnesia. But although trauma is defined by forgetting, the victim or witness of trauma is paradoxically destined to re-live the shock many times in the future, as fragmented memorieswhat Freud called the return of the repressedwill return in nightmares and visions.3 This repressed material is precisely that which is beyond active remembering: these are memories that cannot be voluntarily called to mind. As Cathy Caruth points out,The historical power of trauma is not just that the experience is repeated after its forgetting, but that it is only in and through its inherent forgetting that it is experienced at all (1996, 17). Recommended Reading: White, J, Klein, D Family Theories (2007) Sage Publications, USA UK. Trask, B S, Hamon, RR (2007) Cultural Diversity and Families Sage Publications, USA, London Mason, P, Barnes M, (2009). Children, Families and Social Exclusion – Developing New Understandings for Prevention. Policy Press, Bristol USA. For a Critical Reflective Psychosocial Sociological perspective, see: Poster, M. (1978) Critical Theory of the Family, Continuum Books. Useful information regarding family from a sociological perspective can be found in the following: Giddens, A. (1989) Sociology, Cambridge: Polity Press. Macionis, J. & Plummer, K. (1998) Sociology, London: Prentice Hall. General Readers: Allan, G. (ed.) (1999) The Sociology of the Family: A Reader, Oxford, Blackwell. Barrett, M. & McIntosh, M. (1982) The Anti-Social Family, London: Verso. Bernardes, J. (1997) Family Studies: An Introduction, Routledge: London. Chapman, T. & Hockey, J. (eds.) (1999) Ideal Homes? Social Change and domestic life, London: Routledge. Day Sclater, S. (2000) Access to Sociology: Families, London: Hodder and Stoughton. Scott, J., Treas, J. and Richards, M.P. (eds.) (2004) The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families, Oxford: Blackwell. Recommended Journals: Hantrais, L. (2004) Family Policy Matters: Responding to Family Change in Europe, Bristol: The Policy Press. Hunt, S. (2005) The Life Course: A Sociological Introduction, Basingstoke: Palgrave. Klein, D.M. & White, J.M. (1996) Family Theories, London: Sage. Mumford, K. and Power, A. (2003) East Enders: Family and Community in East London, Bristol: Journal of Marriage and the Family, Families in Society, Journal of Family Issues, Family Studies Abstracts, Journal of Family Psychology, Fox, B. (ed.) (1993). Scott, J. (1997) Changing households in Britain: Do Families Still Matter?, Sociological Review 45(4): 591-620. Winnicott, D.W. (1969) The Child, The Family and the Outside World, London: Penguin. Please make sure you use journals of relevance to Family Studies; consult them as often as you can, either here at UeL, or via EBSCO, or at The British Library/other libraries.
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