Family towards social transformations. Educational condition of the family and possibilities of its improvement

Abstract

Contemporary social reality is a time of rapid transformations and multidirectional, constant changes, which create some new possibilities of development and autocreation, but also takes away the sense of stability and durability of social roles. Social transformations contribute to the appearance of many threats, like: devaluation and relativization of general human values; decrease of social sensitivity; negation of all the ideals; relativization of personal and institutional authority; egoism in aiming to satisfy personal needs, achieve profit and pursue a career; dissemination of mass culture; informational manipulation of mass media, marketisation of individual areas of life; excessive consumerism; more and more often revealed socially destructive phenomena like paedophilia, drug addiction and appearance of new forms of addictions. These, and other phenomena connected with social transformations, influence functioning of basic environments of human life and development, including family. They are shaping its condition and they influence quality of edu