Family In Disney's Lilo And Stitch

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In Disney’s Lilo & Stitch, teaches an important lesson about family, and how “family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.” From a sociological perspective, Lilo & Stitch are correct; family, a primary agent of socialization, is designed to ensure that its subjects can, in essence, keep up with society and learn the means necessary to function in society. In this sense, family does mean that “nobody gets left behind or forgotten” in society. In the past, family has functioned in a very rigid way to ensure its subjects achieve socialization, however, as society becomes more accepting, more dynamic families emerge. This begs the question: how does a family without traditional gender norms and values function? From a functionalist perspective,