TERM PAPER- Functional English Course Code-1102Submitted to,Nusrat Zahan ChowdhuryLecturerDepartment of Public AdministrationSubmitted by,Abdul Baten PiashRoll:18161053Department of Public AdministrationFaculty of Arts & Social SciencesBangladesh University of ProfessionalsDate: 11th April,2018 CONTENTS1.
Introductions 2. The trends, patterns and determinants of living alone in Asia3. Living alone4.
Living with parents5. Advantage6. Disadvantage7. ConclusionIntroductionMan is social being. This implies that he is a being who lives in a social relationship. Thisterm is used to distinguish man from a natural being. (according to Kim Jong) It can be said man cannot live alone. It is so much tough to lead a happy life with aloneness.
As example the embryo and the mother and continues till his last breath. The need of the embryo maybe more physical than mental, but the mother’s need is the other way round. As like a biological organism, man is born, grows and dies, with the natural and biological attributes, according to the biological law. This is well-known fact. To grow, people need different things to get rid of loneliness.
After remove loneliness, it is necessary to meet the basic needs of the people. To survive, people have to meet their basic needs. It is necessary to stay in society together to meet the needs. Man is a social being with independence, creativity, consciousness. To fulfill one’s basic need, it is necessary to live with someone or live with family. Because living alone is not possible in any way. It is not possible for a person alone to fulfill his needs alone. So, people form a family that helps them to meet their needs.
But there is a need to be out of the family to overcome this requirement. People have to go ahead by tackling these advantages. But according to my opinion, living with family is beneficial for a person. Because people have to face different adverse environmental situations. This loneliness makes Becky frightened.
Those who does not have any trouble coming forward in danger. As a result, he has to face problem. The number of people living in family is relatively high. However, the number of people who are out of the family, who are out of work, is not less than that. There cannot be a man who lives outside of social relations. It is therefore a peculiar mode of existence for man, to live and conduct activity forming the social collective in social relations. So, one person needs to live in society.
Living with family or roommates doesn’t fact but one must to need to live in society. It is seen that there is a happiness in staying with friends, there are many problems and face to face. On the other hand, there is happiness in living with the family as well as independence and deprivation. In both case, there are some advantage and disadvantages of the problem. Under these circumstances, the advantages or disadvantages of the problem are given below.1. Economic support:In the case of living with the family, one does not need to spend money on various problems. As a result, a person can save extra money for his needs.
Many times it is possible to purchase a necessity for the purchase of everything together at a lower cost. So, not everyone has to waste money in the family. If a person lives in a family.
He can able to deposit his money which is the main benefit of living with family.2.Caring support:In the case of living with family, family members are benefited. Family members always come forward with each other. For example, in my family, when I got sick in some of my family, my parents came forward and made me care me properly. Then I got very cured sooner. Those people who are outside the family are deprived of these opportunities.
It can be said that despite surviving from the adverse environment, the family was able to achieve the role.3.One won’t have to do all household work:One has to work in different roles to stay in the family. As example doing the laundry, putting the dishes in the washer, putting them back when they are done, vacuuming, cleaning, the living areas from time to time and taking out the trash are just some of the daily chores that need to be done around the house. If any one stay with his family, he doesn’t need to do all this household work which is the another plus point of living with family.4.
The familiar feeling and respective reputation:The biggest benefit of living with the family is to get a respectable reputation for the society. If this is a roommate, then this honorable contact is not possible. Getting acquainted with the people as a prominent person in the community, I think the family can be.
Living with parents could be stop one’s gap arrangement and peace of mind. Though who lives with their roommates are not able to feel mind satisfaction and also are not to able to get familiar feeling.5.
Able to feel enjoyable holydays:Usually, a man likes to spend his holydays with pleasure, loved to spend close to him. But people who lives outside of his family are not able to spend his holydays with his beloved family. While some people complain about having to spend time with family on the holidays, the truth is, without family members to celebrate with, it can get a bit lonely.
A holiday gets together can provide a great.6. Security sense:Living near with family can provided one’s mind fresh, peaceful and security sense. Sometimes one’s have to go outside of the family. Those time one member of his family can take care of your pet, plant, can give food to your fowl fish etc which is the secure benefit of living with the family.
Thus, who are not able to live with his family is not able to get these opportunities.Living alone and living with familyLiving with your family and living all by yourself is like living on two different planets. It will affect every detail of your life, right down to the way you talk, the foods you eat, and how much money you can spend. It will also determine how often your friends visit and how much freedom you have. Living with your parents is similar to living in a royal palace; you will enjoy the luxuries of an elegant house, clean laundry, and a slightly bigger budget, but you will also have to defer to the king and queen of the realm. You will quickly discover that if your sovereigns are happy, neither are you.While living under the rule of the parents, you will have to leave the house in order to socialize. Your friends will also fear the wrath of your sovereigns, and might visit you, but only for short periods of time.
You will also have to wait until your parents go away onvacation to have a suitable house party. Living alone, however, yields much more room for fun. You can dine on pizza and beer every night if you wish and your friends can visit any time. The furniture will be of your choosing, like the smelly ceramic vase in the corner with the strange mouthpiece. And you can clean the house under your own standards of cleanliness, not your mom.After surveying the landscape of prevalence in living alone, the next four papersexplore how the experience of living alone relates to individual’s health andpsychological well-being.
Recent literature has started to question the negativestereotypes attached to the living alone arrangement often found in the popular pressand has called for further empirical investigation (Jamieson and Simpson 2013;Klingenberg 2012). As studies in this collection show, those who live alone in Asia tendto be more socio-economically disadvantaged (migrant workers, the less educated, andthose who cannot afford to own a house), and how such a living arrangement relates toan individual’s well-being has both theoretical and policy implications.Previous literature tends to focus on examining the well-being of older adults wholive alone. Few papers investigate the well-being of young men and women living inOPH. Living alone may have different meanings for and a different impact on youngadults and older adults. Rayno (2015) and Ho (2015) investigate the relationshipbetween living alone and well-being among young adults in the Japanese and Koreancontexts respectively.
Raymo (2015) focuses on the situations in Japan. As noted earlier, Japan has thehighest prevalence of living alone among Asian countries, with OPH being the mostcommon type of family household in the country. Raymo finds that the increase inliving alone among young adults between 1985 and 2010 in Japan can be largelyexplained by the decline in the marriage rate during this period. He also finds that thosewho live alone are less happy than those living with others, though the size of the effectis not substantively large. However, he finds no significant difference in self-reportedhealth status and social participation among those with different living arrangements.The author could not explain the poorer subjective well-being among those living aloneby their level of social participation. More work is needed to examine the mediatingpathways.Ho (2015) finds that unmarried young Koreans who live alone in general havelower life satisfaction than young adults who are married.
Among singles, those wholive alone tend to have higher life satisfaction than singles who live with their familymembers. However, Ho underscores the importance of young Korean’s attitudes towardmarriage as a mediator of the relationship between living alone and subjective wellbeing.Among singles who feel they have to marry or it is better to marry, those wholive alone tend to have lower life satisfaction than those living with their familymembers. Ho finds no significant difference in the likelihood of having suicidalthoughts among young people with different living arrangements.
These analyses arebased on cross-sectional data; hence no causal relationship can be established withconfidence.The two papers by Raymo and Ho reveal the complex relationships between livingalone arrangement, social network participation, lifestyles, and different dimensions ofwell-being. For young adults, living alone is not necessarily associated with loneliness,social isolation, or lower socioeconomic status. It remains unclear to what extent theopposite direction of the association between living alone and subjective well-beingfound in these two papers can be explained by the different sets of covariates, differentmeasures of subjective well-being (happiness versus life-satisfaction), or by thedifferent cultural and structural contexts. Future empirical studies are warranted.The next two papers examine the well-being of the elderly who live alone,addressing some aspects generally ignored in previous research such as the geographicproximity of children.
Teerawichitchainan, Knodel, and Pothisiri (2015) find that manyolder adults who live alone in Myanmar, Vietnam, and Thailand are actually livingclose to their child or children. Therefore, living alone is not necessarily associated withfinancial distress, loneliness, lack of support, less social participation, or poorer wellbeing;though in general solo dwellers report more psychological distress than those.The family may be defined as a unit within a society where people who are related to one another, either through birth or marriage, live together. The word “family” itself can have many meanings and uses. For instance, it may be used to describe any group of persons, animals, plants, or items that are related to each other in some way. This is a very simple definition, but the fact is that “family”, either in its popular or academic use, is possibly one of the most ambiguous words in the English dictionary.The functions of the family as seen from the theoretical perspective of functionalism includes such things as: the legitimizing of sexual behavior, the care and rearing of children, the roles of husband and wife, and the provision of a safe, secure environment for the emotional needs of the family members. The belief that the family provides all or any of the above for its members, especially for children, can be as true as it is false.
With this in mind it is easy to see why the functionalist approach has lost its popularity with sociologists in recent times. Family life for some people is anything but safe and secure, and the reality for a lot of men, women and children, is that the family can be a source of misery and pain. This view is supported by the continuous news reports and court cases relating to violence of a sexual, physical or emotional nature directed towards a family member by other family members. An additional failing of the functionalist approach is its failing to take on board the effects of whatever economic situation people find themselves in. As economic systems can vary greatly from society to society, they have an enormous effect on family life.Advantages and Disadvantages of Staying With parents:Advantages:1) You will save money.
One of the biggest advantages of living with your parents is that you can save a lot of money. From rent, utility bills, renovations, shared grocery bills and a lot more.If you have just graduated and can’t find a job, if you are out of a job and struggling to pay your debts, if you are facing financial problems – living with your parents could be you answer to saving money on everyday expenses.
Think of it as a stopgap arrangement until you get back on your feet.2) You won’t have to do all the housework.Doing the laundry, putting the dishes in the washer, putting them back when they are done, vacuuming, cleaning the living areas from time to time and taking out the trash are just some of the daily chores that need to be done around the house.If you are still living with your parents, you may find yourself exempt from some of these mundane tasks as your mom or dad may be doing them to keep themselves busy.
If you are lucky, your mom may even do your laundry while she is at it.3) You will have someone to cook you a nice meal when you can’t.As a working professional or a busy student, you may not always have the time to come home and fix yourself a homemade meal. If you were living on your own, you would probably have grabbed a takeaway or a quick bite the local joint.Along with living with your parents comes the added benefit of enjoying warm home cooked meals even if you don’t get the time to cook. Your mom may have something ready on the table by the time you come home from work.
4) Your parents can help with your little kids.Single moms and dads going through a rough patch in life may find it financially, mentally, and physically more comfortable to live with their parents until their troubles are sorted out.Only a single mom will know what it takes to work and manage a child. Only a single dad will how it feel to play the dotting dad and the caring mommy at the same time. If you find yourself in a similar situation and are burdened with financial troubles, you could think about the option of living with your parents, at least for a while.
From picking up your little kids from school to giving them food when they want, your parents could be the guardian angels that swoop in to help you scrape through when your life hits rock bottom.5) The familiar feeling of being at home.Besides being cheaper and more convenient, another advantage of living with your parents is that there is a big sense of familiarity.
The house is probably the one you grew up in, and you may find sharing your living space with familiar faces more comforting than with random strangers.Dealing with an annoying roommate or housemate is a pain and if you feel like taking time off from renting and sharing, living with your parents could be your stop gap arrangement and peace of mind.Disadvantages:1) You don’t have privacy or your space.Living with your parents will strip you of your space and privacy and that can be a psychological burden if you have been used to living alone for a long time.No longer will you have the freedom to walk straight out of bed and head to the kitchen in your underwear nor will you be able to go naked from one room to another. While these were just two quirky and humorous examples, you should remember that you can say goodbye to your privacy and the concept of having your own space.2) You can’t call friends over or have house parties.Have you always been the guy/girl at whose place friends crash every now and then? That could change when you move in with your parents.
A big disadvantage of living with your parents especially from the perspective of someone in their 20s or 30s, is that you can’t call your friends over.You can also forget about hosting parties, whether it is a cozy get-together of your college buddies or some of your office colleagues coming over for a round of drinks after work.3) Unwelcome advice about your life.Whether you move in with your mum, dad or both, you are likely to receive advice on your life even if you don’t ask for it. From the stuff that you eat, the time that you sleep or the number of hours you play video games for, be prepared to get unsolicited advice for just about everything.Conclusion
