Desarrollo y transformación de la familia en Sicilia

Abstract

The research aims at investigating, by means of theoretical supports of different kind (sociological, psycological, juridical, economical, religious etc.) and empirical enquiring instruments, the developments and the changes in the family, with particular reference to the Sicilian one, so relevant in the contemporary era that one is led to prefer the plural families instead of the singular family intended as a product of an identical loving relationship but differently connoted in a sexual or emotional, platonic or erotic, imposed or spontaneous, religious or laic, homosexual or eterosexual meaning. A pluralistic methodology has been used (consulting literary, iconic, multimedial sources, objective and perceptive data acquired by means of questionnaires, focus group debating and round table). In short we have investigated the possibility of individualizing the invariants, even though in a delimited territory, within the different types of families which characterize the social fabric, today, extremely multishaped and the developments of a society characterized by so many different cells. The gathered data lead to consider a change in the family not only in real life, but, also, in the collective consciousness, in which it remains nevertheless always a value. The family is, in fact, hope and as Zygmunt Bauman said (2006) “without hope one cannot live”, not even in a “liquid modernity”.