scholarly journals The Image of the Family and Family Home in Małgorzata Musierowicz’s Series of Novels, and the Stereotype of the Family in Contemporary Polish Society

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Senderska ◽  
Iwona Mityk ◽  
Ewa Piotrowska-Oberda
Keyword(s):  
Social Consciousness ◽  
Traditional Family ◽  
Patriarchal Family ◽  
Family Model ◽  
The Family ◽  
Language Data ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
Family Home ◽  
The One ◽  
Over 40 Years

AbstractThe article discusses the image of the family and the family home in a series of novels for young people by the popular Polish writer Małgorzata Musierowicz in the context of literary conventions and stereotypes about the family in contemporary Polish society. The novels, which cover a period of over 40 years, generally fit contemporary Polish realities; however, the didactic function of the novels results in the author creating an idealized image of the Polish intellectual family, filling the readers with optimism. The picture created by the writer, on the one hand, fits perfectly into the stereotype of the family, which is one of the values highly esteemed by Poles. On the other hand, it adapts to the conventions of novels for girls. In this article, the stereotype of the family is reconstructed on the basis of language data and surveys. We present the meanings and contexts of family as a noun and family as an adjective. We also present the results of our survey, the aim of which was to determine an essence of a stereotypical family and how the traditional family model is comprehended by respondents coming from various groups. We also present the respondents’ attitude to the patriarchal family model and the division of roles into male and female. In our opinion, the correspondence between the family picture created in the novels and the image of the family operating in social consciousness is the reason for the popularity of the series.

Paternal Relationships With Sons and Daughters

2021 ◽  
pp. 331-354
Author(s):  
Lambrianos Nikiforidis
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Financial Decisions ◽  
Traditional Family ◽  
Biological Sex ◽  
The Family ◽  
The One ◽  
Parental Bias ◽  
Over Time

This chapter examines paternal relationships with sons and daughters. Identity drives investment (and parental investment in particular), because people invest in that which aligns with their identity. And biological sex drives identity. These two ideas combined imply that a parent-offspring match in biological sex can influence parental favoritism in a systematic manner, an idea supported by recent empirical studies. This parental bias of concordant-sex favoritism can have broad implications, outside the context of the traditional family structure. In single parent or same-sex parent households, the consequences of this bias can be even stronger, because there would not be an opposite-direction bias from the other parent to even things out. This favoritism could have even broader ramifications, entirely outside the context of the family. On the one hand, whenever social norms dictate that men should control a family’s financial decisions, then sons may systematically receive more resources than daughters. This asymmetry in investment would then result in ever-increasing advantages that persist over time. On the other hand, if women are a family’s primary shoppers, this can manifest in subtle but chronic favoritism for daughters.

scholarly journals Traditional family rites of the Ukrainians of Podolia: archaic elements of а cultural text

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 78-86
Author(s):  
Inna Gorofyanyuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Family Rituals ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Traditional Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Verbal Component ◽  
The One

Podolia is an ethnographic region of Ukraine, which is known for active interethnic contacts for many centuries, which, on the one hand, have systematically enriched the Podolsk spiritual and material culture, and on the other hand, in various spheres of the traditional culture of the Podolians, there is a preservation of many Slavic archaic elements. The article presents the archaic elements of the traditional culture of the Ukrainians of Podolia in traditional family rituals – birthlore, wedding and funeral on the material of the verbal component of the cultural text. Field records of dialectal texts, made by the author in 2006–2014 in more than 100 villages of Vinnitsa region served as empirical basis of the study. The family rites texts attest the realization of the main semantic oppositions of the Slavic picture of the world: "top" – "bottom", "full" – "empty", "own" – "alien". The motives of the cult of ancestors, deception of death, syncretism of agrarian and family rituals are elements of the archaic, which constitute an essential part of the folk consciousness and beliefs of the Podolians. Several fragments of the folk culture of the Ukrainians of Podolia presented in the article through the prism of the comparative typological analysis, with the involvement of data from other Slavic traditions, signal the preservation of the general archaic fund of the spiritual culture of the Slavs

The upward transmission of civic ‘virtues’

2020 ◽  
pp. 159-176
Author(s):  
Esther Muddiman ◽  
Sally Power ◽  
Chris Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
The Family ◽  
Civic Virtues ◽  
Family Home ◽  
The One

This chapter explores the significance of younger generations in changing their parents' and grandparents' perspectives, moving beyond common conceptualisations of the one-directional sharing of values and practices from older to younger generations. Drawing on the interview data, it focuses on the synergistic learning experiences described by parents and grandparents. The chapter looks at how conversations with younger generations can prompt reflection on deeply held values and attitudes, and can contribute to a shift in perspectives. Most notably, it details how the rising prominence of environmental concerns has been brought to the attention of older family members, and how environmentalism is brought into the family home via knowledges and practices learnt by younger family members in the classroom. The chapter also considers how discussions with children and grandchildren present an opportunity for parents and grandparents to 'update' their perspectives on gender and sexuality.

Partnerattiecību tiesiskā regulējuma ieviešanas iespējas

2021 ◽  
pp. 277-288
Author(s):  
Lidija Rozentāle
Keyword(s):  
Family Policy ◽  
Traditional Family ◽  
Family Model ◽  
Ideal Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Boundaries ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Aid Policy ◽  
Democratic Country

There are partners in every country who have chosen a long-term cohabitation oppose to a marriage, although they have no legal or any other barriers to get married. It is up to each country to decide whether to recognise and regulate such relationships or not. The Republic of Latvia is facing a similar choice. Latvia, like other countries, is trying to formulate the necessity and proportionality of such a regulation, as well as its topicality. In Latvia, law scientists, students, lawyers and researchers have conducted a number of studies on civil partnerships to determine the need. At the centre of the Latvian family policy is a traditional family model based on marriage, assuming that this ideal family model is the only desired one. Other forms of family, where a child is formally raised by one of the parents, are viewed as a traditional family in a crisis situation, rather than a respectable form of the family (Putniņa, Zīverte, 2008). The Maintenance Guarantee Fund emphasizes the increasing number of applications for material assistance from parents of children born outside the marriage or in civil partnerships, also of children left without paternity, which leads to a large number of these ‘other’ families being left outside the family boundaries set by the state aid policy. In the author’s opinion, such situation is unacceptable in a democratic country, and it is a gross violation of children’s rights to material aid, which can have a significant impact on the future development of children.

Blonde Venus

2019 ◽  
pp. 40-58
Author(s):  
James Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tale ◽  
The Other ◽  
Film Genre ◽  
Fallen Woman ◽  
The Family ◽  
Show Business ◽  
Medical Researcher ◽  
Family Home ◽  
The One

This chapter examines Blonde Venus (1932), Sternberg and Dietrich’s characteristically atypical take on the fallen woman film genre. Dietrich’s character is as much liberated as cast out from the family home when she resumes her earlier career in show business and is condemned by her husband for prostitution. Yet the downward trajectory of the fallen woman genre never really exerts its grip on Dietrich, for she remains a mythical being. The chapter interprets the film as a critique of the patriarchal institution of marriage in which standards are expected of the woman that are not expected of the man: Dietrich’s character’s husband shuns her for selling her body, even though he attempts to sell his own (to a medical researcher). The question of the film that the chapter explores is the reconcilability of fairy-tale romance and everyday marriage: Blonde Venus does not take for granted the transition from the one to the other.

The Jihadis and the Family

2021 ◽  
pp. 224-271
Author(s):  
Farhad Khosrokhavar
Keyword(s):  
Family Violence ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Single Parent Family ◽  
Traditional Family ◽  
Self Blame ◽  
Patriarchal Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Violent Action ◽  
And Behavior

Chapter 4 examines the ways in which the circumstances and dynamics of a family can affect the decisions and behavior of its members, including decisions leading to jihadism. Regarding Europeans jihadis, in many cases the analysis of their family background sheds light on their radicalization. Some configurations, such as the single-parent family or stepfamily, play a role in young people’s radicalization, particularly broken families, especially among Muslims living in ghettoized neighborhoods. Some people used family as the setting for their violent action: brothers, sisters, cousins, and, more exceptionally, fathers or mothers. For others, coming from broken families, jihadi violence was a continuation of family violence. In some cases, members of crisis-stricken families (brothers, cousins) were reconciled through their joint participation in jihadi action. Three types of families in crisis can be mentioned: the headless patriarchal family, the neo-traditional family, and the stepfamily. All of them are marked by the crisis of authority in the home, which can lead to feelings of guilt (self-blame) or injustice. These feelings, in some cases, can contribute to a person’s involvement in jihadism. One can also distinguish jihadi “fratriarchy” (brotherhood), and “jihadophile” families.

scholarly journals Family prospects of the Russian youth in conditions of social change

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 02002
Author(s):  
Elena Ippolitova ◽  
Irina Ralnikova ◽  
Olga Gurova
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Marital Relations ◽  
Traditional Family ◽  
Patriarchal Family ◽  
Safety Function ◽  
Self Development ◽  
The Family ◽  
Need For Support

The article presents the results of a study of the family prospects of modern youth for the period from 2011 to 2017. A tendency has been revealed to reorient young people from traditional family values, including the birth and upbringing of children, to creating a satisfying need for support, freedom, and self-development of the partnership. There is a reduction in the target saturation of family prospects for young people, the reduction in the content of their goals related to marital relations, while concentrating on the planning of personal development. The family prospects of Russian youth reflect their focus on creating in the future not a traditional patriarchal family, but a free alliance that implements emotional, psychological, as well as recreational functions and a safety function at the expense of the reproductive one.

scholarly journals Individualism, life trajectories and plans of constituting a family

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina de Campos Borges ◽  
Andrea Seixas Magalhães
Keyword(s):  
Marital Stability ◽  
The Other ◽  
Love Relationships ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Life Trajectories ◽  
Family Model ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Life Courses ◽  
The One

The present paper discusses the results of a research that had as its main purpose to analyze the life projects of individuals belonging to different generations within the last decades, with special emphasis on the role played by establishing a family in such projects. Speeches of 20 individuals (10 men and 10 women) from two generations were analyzed. The study pointed out that the profound contemporary sociocultural changes have led to increasing individualism in the relationships, and consequently have altered the way people engage in building their life courses. Two things have been occurring simultaneously. On the one hand, life courses are being individualized and previous standards are being broken, a phenomenon linked to the reduction of gender asymmetries and to the questioning of the institutions. On the other hand, the family model based on marital stability is being repelled. Due to the instability of love relationships, children are gaining importance in the structuring of the idea of a family.

scholarly journals Una memoria sexuada del cosmos: El marco heteropatriarcal de la cámara telescópica de Patricio Guzmán en Nostalgia de la luz (2010)

Periphērica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-69
Author(s):  
Nagore Sedano
Keyword(s):  
Male Subject ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Innovative Treatment ◽  
Heterosexual Male ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Home ◽  
The One ◽  
Queer Phenomenology ◽  
Memory Transmission

In this article, I draw on Sara Ahmed’s theorization of “queer phenomenology” to examine the re-orientation of memory discourses in Patricio Guzman’s Nostalgia de la luz (2010). In Nostalgia, the camera produces a metaleptic effect by meticulously framing, in a similar manner to that of a telescope, the background of the official historical narrative: the memory of the natural world. Guzmán’s metaleptic camera teaches us an interconnected “memory of the cosmos.” Yet this re-orientation of memory discourses is articulated from a family home that serves as a gendered orienting device. Following queer phenomenology, I trace the ways in which the documentary’s innovative treatment of memory is hindered by the heteropatriarchal orientation of the family home. I argue that, in Nostalgia, the memory of the heterosexual male subject is the one that is transmitted vertically within the heteropatriarchal family. In doing so, the documentary reproduces the familial and linear tropes that have dominated discourses of intergenerational memory transmission. Queer phenomenology warns us that Guzman’s call to “vivir en el frágil tiempo presente” is not merely a question of having or lacking memory. Memory is a matter of following, and returning, specific lines of orientation, at the expense of others.

scholarly journals Making the case for the family model in in-patient child and adolescent mental healthcare

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Lesley Cousins ◽  
Joanne Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Emotional Distress ◽  
Child Psychiatry ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Child And Adolescent ◽  
Family Model ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Home

Summary Within paediatrics, young children experiencing physical and emotional distress are admitted to hospital with their parents as a matter of course, recognising the trauma associated with parting children from their carers. Much of this practice is underpinned by our understanding of attachment theory, which also sits as a fundamental tenet of child psychiatry. Yet the culture in psychiatric in-patient hospitals remains to admit young children without their parents, often to units that are geographically distant from the family home. We argue that the practice of admitting lone children to psychiatric in-patient units is likely to be traumatising as well as less effective. We believe this culture requires challenge and change.

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