![]() ![]() It consists of “instrumental and expressive” roles. In families, division of labor also exists. Gender roles are fundamental in the economic functioning of a family. Soldiers have to take an oath to serve their country when they go out on deployment to protect his country and its people.Īnother main point on functionalism is gender roles in families. He also develops society by serving society as faithfully as he can. In the song, Whiskey Lullaby, the man facilitates prosperity by going out to work. The family and its members perform certain functions that make prosperity possible and development of society. Families also play a key role in sustaining and contributing to society. When considering the role of the family in society, functionalists believe that families are a crucial social institution which seeks to meet the needs of its members. ![]() Each perspective is crucial to helps to understand how our society works.īelow one can find an explanation of application and relevance using theory to explain issues that are highlighted in the song, Whiskey Lullaby. There isn’t one answer to the question of what society is and how it works. Sociology includes three main perspectives, they are: (1) the functionalist perspective, (2) the conflict perspective, and (3) the symbolic interactionist perspective. Therefore, Sociological Theories/ Perspectives are a set of ideas which claims to explain how society or aspects of society works. She finally drank her pain away a little at a time.” These lyrics speak to how much guilt the woman was facing years after what she has caused.Īpplication and Relevance Using Three Sociological Perspectives to Explain Issues Affecting the Family In The SongĪs stated by Haralambos and Holborn (2000), a Perspective/Theory is a set of ideas which claims to explain how something works. For years and years she tried to hide the whiskey on her breath. “The rumors flew but nobody knew how much she blamed herself. “For years and years she tried to hide the whiskey on her breath”, these lyrics speak clearly on how she was trying so hard to get rid of her pain until she drank herself to death. Simply put, they drowned their problems in whiskey. The song represents the way the couple died. After finding out what she did to him, he felt that alcohol was the best thing to turn to. He/she put the bottle to his head and pulled the trigger is about the man drinking himself to death over the heartbreak of having his wife cheat on him. On the other hand, I believe that the woman ended up committing suicide because of the guilt she was facing for what she has done and caused. This is very true in the song, the man was unable to cope with the situation and ending up “putting the bottle to his head and pull the trigger”. According to Andersen, Taylor and Logio (2015), veterans are twice as likely as nonveterans in the general population to commit suicide. On one hand, the man who was an ex ended his life because the woman was unfaithful to him. In the song “Whiskey Lullaby”, the couple consumed large amounts of alcohol until they end up dead. The woman blamed herself and ended up following the same path he took, committing suicide by drinking large amounts of alcohol. Finchman (2003) in his study noted that marital conflict has been linked to the onset of depressive symptoms, eating disorders, male alcoholism, episodic drinking, binge drinking and out-of-home drinking. This caused him to no longer feel loved and ended up taking his own life by over drinking. In the song Whiskey Lullaby, when the husband returns from deployment, he finds his wife cheating on him with another man, almost instantly, this breaks his heart. Fincham (2003) once stated that “marital conflict has harmful effects on mental, physical, and family health”. NOTE: The themes for this song is not limited to the ones stated herein.įrank D. ![]() The themes are as follows: marital conflict, suicide, alcoholism and self-blame. When I reflect on the lyrics of this song, three main themes come to my mind. The family members bury the woman next to the man underneath the willow tree. She continues to drink and drink until she kills herself because of the guilt and pain she was suffering from. When the woman finds out he is committed suicide, she turns to alcohol envisioning the man to be with her, when in reality he wasn’t. He began to consume large amounts of alcohol until one day he kills himself because he can no longer live continue living without her (“He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger, and finally drank away her memory”). The husband is a soldier who was deployed for quite some time but upon returning home, he finds that his wife is unfaithful to him. Whiskey Lullaby, the country song, is about a couple who were married. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |