A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN SOCIAL VALUES IN TWO GENERATIONS: PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN IN EXTENDED AND NUCLEAR FAMILIES IN RURAL EGYPT (A CASE STUDY IN EL MONIRA VILLAGE, EL KANATER EL KHAIRIA DISTRICT, QALYUBIA governorate).

Document Type : Research articles.

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Rural Sociology and Agriculture Extension Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain shams University, Arab Republic of Egypt.

Abstract

Family is the first institution that initiate social values and behaviors
among their members. Egyptian rural because of conservation of family
values, with the starting and developing of modernization, the new
generations started turning away from the extended families to the nuclear
families, so a great variation happened in family and social values which
ranges from the traditional values in extended families and modern
nuclear families. The main objective of the study is to determine the
relationship of family structure and social values, in contemporary
Egyptian rural society.
A purposive sample of 110 rural families was selected from ElMonira village, El- Kanater El-Khairia district, Qalyubia governorate 55
of them were nuclear and 55 were extended families.
Data were collected during July and August 2016 from 330
participants (220 parents and 110 child or youth) using standardized PVQ
questionnaire and focus group discussions (FGDs).Descriptive statistics
and “T test” Were used to analyze data.
Findings showed that there was no significant differences between
children and their parents’ social value in the studied families but a
significant differences were found between parents and children in
relation to social value in nuclear families, this is due to the effect of
industrialization and modernization which have changed the concept of
family. Finally, findings of FGDs reported that the family values are
changing so fast from extended family of which the social values and
kinship network is so strong, to companionship nuclear families in which
the social values and kinship network is less strong.


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