Institutional transformations: a study about the new family arrangements

Abstract

Social institutions are so ancient that its origin cannot be easily outlined. They are formers of norms and values that organize the social coexistence and participate in the production of historically shared ways of living. Such standards may be transmitted in the form of laws or for everyday living. The family is one of the oldest social institutions and also the one who suffers most modifications today. On the emergence of new family arrangements, this theoretical research aims to analyze the family institution from a historical perspective, seeking to understand the social effects the family arrangements that have more visibility recently, as well as the emotions experienced in these new compositions. As a partial result, one can realize that even though the family arrangements are varied and widespread in the social, they still find resistance compared to standard mainstream bourgeois that configures the social imaginary. The partial completion of this study shows that the current families are facing the political challenge of making and sustaining other ways to live among its members and in relation to society, still referred to the traditional nuclear model.