Inter-generational Relations: Between the Dialectic of Conflict and Consensus A socio-anthropological study of the contemporary Tunisian family (The city of Marsa Tunisia as an example)

Abstract

This study focuses on the transformation process experienced by the family, which is undergoing continuous changes in the patterns of its relationships, bonds, features, and roles. Another institution with different characteristics, behavioral references, and symbolic meanings, affecting its structure, cultural identity, and system, making it susceptible to these social and cultural transformations, is gradually replacing the set of values that once structured it.

Additionally, this study aims to shed light on the confusion faced by guardians today in fulfilling their role in raising children, which involves ongoing attention to the children—a necessity in contemporary societies. Children require daily supervision from their guardians to prevent blind imitation and the adoption of cultures that differ from their own, thereby avoiding a departure from their inherited values.

However, recent studies have shown that the functions, roles, and structure of the family have undergone changes and have taken on new directions compared to the past. In light of these transformations, contemporary societies have been influenced by modern electronic technological villages that attempt to unify the world and bring together its cultural parts through a modern communication bridge, changing the cultural orientation of today's social actor.