Family traditions
This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
|
Family tradition, also called family culture, is defined as an aggregate of
Modern studies of family traditions
The study of family tradition and personality has attracted the attention of social scientists. Ernest W. Burgess, Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, has defined the term in these words:
Whatever its biological inheritance from its parents and other ancestors, the child receives also from them a heritage of attitudes, sentiments, and ideals which may be termed the family tradition, or the family culture.
Sometimes, family traditions are associated with practices and beliefs which are handed over from one
Functioning of family traditions
Halbwachs in his book "On Collective Meare revealed only to its members. But these memories, as in the religious traditions of the family of antiquity, consist not only of a series of individual images of the past. They are at the same time models, examples, and elements of teaching. They express the general attitude of the group; they not only reproduce its history but also define its nature and its qualities and weaknesses".[1]
Antiquity of family traditions
Family traditions have their roots in distant past, to
Then, as also now, several families like to identify a particular person as the keeper of the family traditions and assign a particular name to the keeper. Thus, a particular family, residing in the modern
Classic examples of family traditions
One of the classic examples of family traditions of the modern era is the family traditions of the present
Family traditions in the modern context
Meaningful family traditions have always been a valuable tool for parents and elders to carry out the responsibility of raising children and inculcating into them
Social scientists now agree that effective family traditions promote a sense of identity and a feeling of closeness, a sense of security and assurance in today’s fast, hectic, and ever-changing world. William Doherty, a social scientist has explained in his book "The Intentional Family" that as family bonds are weakened by busy
See also
- Family cookbooks
- Silva rerum – Polish "home chronicles"
References
- ^ "Cultural Memories".
- ^ "Harry follows family tradition". 12 June 2003.