Toward a Cross — Cultural Conceptualization of Family Modernity

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Family modernity is conceptualized as the degree to which a multipicity of equally acceptable models of familiar behavior co-exist so that individuals have a wide range of options as to what type of “family” to have and how to behave as family members. Family as well as societal and individual modernity are seen as multidimensional and the inter-relationships between these three levels of modernity examined. Since no specification of the content of modernity is made, modernity may be expressed very differently in various cultures. Cross-cultural comparisons will be possible, however, through the “conceptual equivalence” between the ranges of options followed in each culture.

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