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-Rite Of Passage: The first in the lifespan
-Social Institution: Family
-Status: Infant (unable to care for themselves)
-Cohort: Family system
-Relationships: Father-Son, Mother-Son relationships
-Values: Raised at home with values such as family relationships, freedom, equality, shelter/a home, etc.
-Social Norms: limits, manners, social structure, discipline, social skills, traditions, etc. -
-Roles: Brother role of being a good older role model and showing Bella appropriate behaviors to mimic that I have been taught.
-Status: Status of brother or older sibling to my sister, toddler
-Cohort: Sibling subsystem group, characterized by a common relation of being children of our parents.
-Relationships: This also gave us a sibling relationship of emotional support, and strengthened my social and communication skills. -
-Rite Of Passage: Progressed into a young juvenile
-Social Norms: Social interaction, relationship building, how to follow a schedule.
-Roles: Help shape the learning of the classroom and engage in lessons.
-Role Set: Relationships with other student peers, teachers, school staff.
-Social Institution: School institution
-Status: Student
-Transition: Had to adapt to the status and the new responsibilities
-Relationships: Peers, and teachers
-Values: Education, transportation, friendships -
-Cohort: Sibling cohort/subsystem formed by similar characteristic of shared parents
-Relationships: Additional sibling relationship that help strengthen my social ability -
-Role: Taking care of our pet by feeding him, supplying him with water, letting him out for walks, etc.
-Role Strain: Had to do these tasks while managing my status as a student, with homework, being away during the morning and majority of the afternoon, morning preparation for school, etc.
-Status: Pet owners -
-Rite Of Passage: Marked my progression from a young child/juvenile status to an early adolescent, and my education progressed to high-school.
-Status: Middle school status
-Transition: Adapt to increased amount of homework and discipline from school -
-Life Event: Had many psychological impacts on me, such as influenced decision making, thinking, personality, autonomy, etc.
-Role Strain: I was a student struggling with my identity and development at the time which could have interfered with my working habits.
-Transition: From an adolescent into a young adult which is when puberty occurs which can cause increased emotional effects. -
-Roles: More physical labor
-Role Conflict: Role conflict between my family role and my student role. This is demonstrated through my father not living at the household, and trying to stay connected while still handling other responsibilities.
-Life Event: Stress, change in personality, change in emotional state
Transition: Difficult family change
-Relationships: Father relationship became long-distance. Changed my relationship with mother because she was now the only parent at home -
-Rite Of Passage: Marked the time that I had reached the age to be allowed to start my driving education, which also gives more freedom, responsibility, and shows maturity
-Social Norms: Social Norms are also highly needed for driving on the road. If a driver is not interacting with other drivers of the road such as using turning signals, it could result in a car crash
-Role: Following the rules and regulations on the road and playing my part to ensure all drivers safety
-Status: Legal driver -
-Rite Of Passage: Marked the time that I had passed my secondary school education
-Social Institution: School institution
-Status: Young adult
-Transition: Had much more freedom and independence than previously -
-Social Institution: Important moment in the family life cycle and is the phase of independence
-Status: Regained my status as a student (university)
-Cohort: Cohort group of friends; helped better define my own identity away from my orientational family
-Life Event: Stress, independent decisions, and the transition of leaving the family social institution to explore my own interests and further education
-Transition: Changes in previous relationships
-Relationships: New friend relationships -
-Social Institution: Completed all my post-secondary education from the social institution, bank institution
-Status: Gained my unemployed social status, and lost my student status
-Transition: Major transition would involve finding financial independence through a career and buying a home (not residence) -
-Rite Of Passage: Family life cycle phase; when I had found my ideal partner
-Roles: Commitment, procreation, support, time investment, sharing financials
-Role Strain: Married man trying to find time for my spouse however work and financial stress would interfere
-Role Conflict: Balance of time investment between my occupation and my partner
-Status: Married
-Cohort: Family system
-Life Event: Start of developing family
-Relationships: Long lasting relationship with my partner
-Values: Family -
-Rite Of Passage: Began family
-Social Institution: Family institution
-Status: Father
-Roles: New parental roles to teach child social norms
-Role Set: Parental partnership with my wife, loving and supportive relationship with my children, mutually caring relationship with my parents
-Role Strain: While I was a father, I had to deal with the pressures of financial debts or taxes, working at my occupation
-Role Conflict: Between job and family
-Life Event: Family start -
-Rite Of Passage: Marked my age progression to an elderly man
-Social Institution: Had to receive care from my children at their family institution, or to a elderly care home (healthcare) institution
-Status: Elderly/retired status
-Life Event: Start of my retirement, when I no longer have the need to work anymore
-Transition: May involve many hardships in the long process, such as deep grief dealing with loss
-Values: Value my present relationships at the time even more -
Twas' A Good Life.
The final rite of passage in the lifespan which marked the time of my death. This was a crucial life event in which I had passed away and my life is over.
