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The Family Rituals Emotional Sociological Interpretation

Posted on:2014-01-11Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:D XuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2247330398482859Subject:Sociology
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With the increase in the number of the transformation of the social structure, the family has also undergone a great change, relative to the core family. In China, family is an ascription, the ethics family, the relationship between the family members maintain by blood, emotional and ethical. The family ritual is family member in the family space according to a certain code of ethics with the emotional significance of the relatively fixed interaction procedures and expression. Family ritual can divided into formal family ritual and informal family ritual, formal family ritual including worship; informal family ritual including chat, family party and other daily ritual activities.This article is based on the emotional ceremony theory, the affective disorder theory, emotional control theory, shame theory, relational cohesion theory, the emotional exchange theory, the emotional expectations theory, emotional power-the status theory, integrated field theory, ordinary methods science, symbolic interaction of sociological theory to analyze the running of the family ritual in Chinese family, as well as the running of the family ritual presented emotional interaction, reveal the impact of family structure and membership, and thus society as the role of ethics in the environment, and thus the impact of the macro society, to explore family ritual in the period of Social Transformation of Chinese family.Article by explaining three basic questions:first, in daily life, the family ritual content, form, change, and what the emotional life of the Chinese people impact under the change; second, in the transition period, the Chinese family "Field","family ritual" has a different operating logic of the "universal ritual", at this particular time and space, family rituals had change the family structure, relations, and different families have different ritual, and from traditional to modern, a family ritual is changing. Therefore, we need to tap from the horizontal and vertical comparisons in a family ritual, what kind of an emotional state of life, such as family members ritual expression of emotion, power and relationships, rituals positive emotions and anti-emotional emotional family ritual, to achieve further research purposes.This research is based on a number of key family ritual cases in An Hui Province. Family A as the main key ritual scene analysis, as a family ritual event process to analyze the longitudinal axis of propulsion, scene analysis ritual of the event in progress as well as in family scenario in the official ritual activities and the parties to the informal ritual activities, interaction and emotional communication as the horizontal axis. Vertical propulsion strategy is based on key nodes in the entire incident, the event is broadly divided into different stages. Narrative process to achieve a combination of "thick description" and "polyphonic" research purposes.Consolidated before emotional expression family ritual, the question of power relations, emotional and anti-emotional problems, the paper argues that emotional mechanisms to establish harmonious and effective family ritual will involve a key issue:the institutionalization of family ritual emotional. Only established the family ritual emotional hard institutionalized and family ritual emotional soft institutionalized, we can create a harmonious and orderly, emotionally rich modern family.
Keywords/Search Tags:Family ritual, Emotional expression, Powers, Relationships, Anti-emotional, Emotional construct, Institutionalized
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