Lietuvos šeima ir modernybės projektas: prieštaros bei teorizavimo galimybės
The Lithuanian family and the project of modernity

Summary/Abstract: Summary In the past two decades, the institute of the family in Lithuania acquired the structural features that are constitutional to the family of the second modernity. Nevertheless, in the realm of the family culture, society reproduces the beliefs and opinions that are typical of the first modernity. The article considers the social and historical development of the Lithuanian family in the interwar and the soviet modernity and explains the social mechanism that reproduced the developmental inconsistency during these two periods of the Lithuanian modernisation project. It is argued that the key role belongs to the cultural concept of the national “normal family” that was constructed in the interwar period and has sustained its power during the soviet period and in contemporary society.

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