Sociological Theories

Sociological Theories

Introduction

Sociology of the family is one of the oldest social sciences. The problem of marriage and the family has always been a massive and sustained interest. The institution of family has always been the focus of sociology. The family has a dual character: on one hand - a social institution, with another - a small group, which develops and operates under its own laws. It depends on the society, the existing political system, economic, social, and religious and other relationships. Family is socially sanctioned, and a relatively constant association of people related by kinship, marriage or adoption, living together and economically dependent on each other. The family includes the implementation of a number of social functions (e.g. parenting), includes a set of shared values, which are interlocking statuses and roles. Sociology of the Family is one of the oldest social sciences. After all, its object of study - the social institution of the family - in the history of humankind is playing a leading role. Accordingly, research papers, one way or other describing and explaining forms of social life, could not fix the continuing importance of family and tribal organization of life (Jones, 2007).

The family, as it were woven into the fundamental basis of life and forms the basic preconditions of functioning of society through physical, social and cultural replacement of generations by having children and maintaining the existence of all family members. Without this, reproduction and socialization of offspring cannot fill all social formations, the provision of social life. However, the implementation of the basic functions of the family is not the consequence of which - or biological controls, or mechanisms, and is the result of specific social processes occurring in the broader social context. The family includes the diverse components related to physiological processes, from the psychological dynamics of relationships, norms and cultural values, to market and economic conditions of production, with demographic changes, with the institutions of the army, church, health, government administration and the historical transformations in general . In this connection, we can recall the famous retreat from Marxism, one of its founders to Engels, who believed that the defining moment in history is the "stage of development, "Labor, on the one hand, and on the other - the family (Nussbaum, 2003).

The destruction of the peasant family farm, family disorganization and collapse of parental influence on children in the cities have played, I think, an important role in the crisis of our society. It is just as if pulling into the sphere of wage labors in the state-owned enterprises without exception all the men and women of working age, the elimination of all forms of private domestic production. In addition, the transformation of the family household in the cell self-bled the country's economy, destroyed the continuity of generations of family and socialization of children relegated to the elementary contacts on the physiological life cycle. All of this was manifested in the imbalance between the personal (private) and public (generic), which affects all ...