Abstract

MACIEL, Carlos Alberto Batista. The modernity of the modern family. Rev. NUFEN [online]. 2009, vol.1, n.1, pp. 60-78. ISSN 2175-2591.

This text discusses the family institution today. Claims about the progress of the individual and the reduction of spaces for the collective in the social environment of family, and the contradictory relationship between the family, the individual and society at present.

Keywords : modern family; individualism; civilizing process.

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