Rodzina śląska. Cechy kulturowe i społeczne.(Tezy i aspekty badań)
The Silesian family. The cultural and social features. (Theses and aspects of studies)

Summary/Abstract: The family is the nucleus social cell, within which there go on basic processes of „culturalization” and socialization. By the Silesian family the author understands a family residing in the region for many generations. Studies on the family understood in this way have been developing along two paths: the first current, related to Katowice, deals with workers’ families from agglomerations in an industrial district; the other – connected with Opole – concentrates on rural families of Opole province. Making a review of studies, the author underlines the fact that before 1989 the multispectral Upper-Silesian identity had not been perceived. Many-sided conservatism, consisting – among others – of diligence and thriftiness, patriarchal and many-generation character, religiousness and faithfulness to their own „little mother-country” are still enumerated to be the characteristic features of the Silesian family. That set of features has begun to undergo changes, sometimes progressing towards degradation, following the political and economic breakthrough of 1989.

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