The Tunisian Family between Change and Continuity a Sociological Study of the Main Characteristics of the Family and Factors Contributing to its Modernization The City of La Marsa.Tunisia as An Example

Abstract

This study focuses on the ongoing process of change that families are undergoing in terms of their relationships, bonds, characteristics, roles, and values, which have been shaped by new communication technologies. These may gradually be replaced by another institution with different characteristics, behavioral references, and symbolic meanings that have been built into its structure and system. It,s structure and system. This study also aimed to examine the increase in urban characteristics that have brought new cultures to individuals that were previously unfamiliar, in order to keep pace with the transformations resulting from the movement, interaction, and exchange of cultures that our society has been forced to accept, along with the evolutionary meaning that has spread throughout the world without exception. For this reason, the family, especially the Tunisian family, has attracted the attention of various researchers in the field in the Arab and Western worlds.

This research required analysing the life paths of members of Tunisian society and understanding the reality of the situation of the Tunisian family and the Marsaoui family in particular, in light of the transformations in terms of its structure, functions, and internal and external relationships (with society), and to track the process of transformation as a result of young people's acceptance of foreign cultures in order to reveal the constants that change and those that do not change in the family, to monitor the original structural, relational, behavioral, and functional characteristics that it has preserved, and to identify the areas in which change is permitted.