OPŠTA TEORIJSKA RAZMATRANJA MEĐUGENERACIJSKIH ODNOSA U SAVREMENOJ PORODICI
GENERAL THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS OF INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS IN THE CONTEMPORARY FAMILY

Summary/Abstract: The article aims at explaining, in sociological terms, intergenerational relations as social relations in the contemporary family. Hence, the subject of research can be formulated as follows: What are intergenerational relations of parents and their children in the contemporary family of the postmodern type? What is the role of parents in the family at the turn of the century? What is the role of the family in a society of postmodern era? The answers to these questions are provided by means of general scientific methods: analysis, synthesis, induction, and deduction. The research results refer to furthering knowledge about the relations, roles, and functions of the family in postmodern society, that is, to furthering knowledge that 1) family relations are mostly of egalitarian type due to the transfer of educational functions to other social institutions, resulting in 2) parental attitude towards children. becomes one-dimensional, that is, reduced only to the provision of parental love and warmth, and not to the exercise of parental control over the child, as was previously the case; 3) that the role of the family in contemporary society for people as social beings and their organizational forms of sociability has been irreplaceable and undeniable throughout the history. Yet, in the postmodern context, this role is of primarily emotional character, where the knowledge about it is provisional, due to constant social and family changes, as well as due to the postmodernist paradigm being the dominant one in the world, extending the relativism of conceptual definitions, that is, resistance to the tyranny of definition.

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