Família ocidental: a tragetória de um conceito na produção bibliográfica das ciências humanas

Abstract

This dissertation is about the theme of the family in the field of Human Science in the contemporary. The family is being signified from the different focus that send to special and time dimensions, which comprise the historical, the social, the economic, the politic and the psychic. This study included a review of literature concerning the theme, taking on a proposal the approach of the problems relating to the concept of the family in the West contemporary.Here, there is a pretension to understand the family with a wide vision of an institution that is involved by changes and transformations induced by events or processes which open arrangements and derangements, continuities and discontinuities, where in one of side, tendencies still compose in relations of power, here associated to the forms of violence revealed by a hierarchy which regulates, submits, creates links of dependence, imposes limits, deprives, constrains and prohibits, and another, the arising of a social organization, which is cultivating practices and speeches marked by plurality, heterogeneity, flexibility and contextually that fall in social relationships. It is intending with this vision, to cover the analysis instigator of the place statement that the family assumes in the contemporary society. In this sense, notice the limits from Human Sciences speech in their attempts to learn the meaning of the functionality of the family in the current context, in the West. These limits, often are imposed by the situation, by the context, in which the own speeches are produced, considering that every speech is historical and ideological.