FAMILY VALUES AND MODERN IDENTITIES
FAMILY VALUES AND MODERN IDENTITIES

Author(s): Jelena Đurić
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Sociology, Gender history
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: family values; cultural identity; gender socialization; modernity vs tradition; soul and subjectivity
Summary/Abstract: This paper will consider the problem of identity which reflects ‘family values’ transmitted usually to the child in its first cultural environment. That's why the family is substantial factor of enculturation: internalization of culture, developing a social identity, providing an ascribed social status and early gender socialization the child usually socialize by getting used to routines of the family members, receiving signs of their needs and expectations. Hence, the personal life experience of father and mother are crucial to the resultant parental values that would be transmitted to the child. But apart from parental identities, their upbringing practices and educational patterns also depend on cultural worldviews and social policies. The collision among the two is present in Serbia where cultural recognition of family values, originating from the traditional society, still seems resilient to modernization policy (since the period of socialism with its ‘state feminism’ that promoted women rights as ‘equality in employment’). Provoking paradox in the issue of women rights, modern values also assumed a need to harmonize both of women's roles as industrial and as domestic labor force.

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