To begin with I apologize for using technical language. From now on I will try to simplify it to the fullest.
But I also want to make a precision: what I intend to propose a different way of thinking about domestic relations and all that entails and why I use some concepts rather than technical I would say are specific.
I would also like to point out that all this discussion and its conceptual basis is explained in my book The solitude of Mae.
I invite you to read it to satisfy all your curiosity and find explanations.
(Also, many issues are discussed more extensively in other entries in this blog, simply "click" and search).
In this speech I will answer the questions raised by Wotan after exposure. All my answer will be in normal font, and text of Wotan in bold:
Ha tocado un tema muy controvertido y difícil de analizar sin aspectos subjetivos realmente relevantes.
-Estoy totalmente de acuerdo que la institución de la familia "como persona jurídica" es una construcción cultural, ¿pero cuál es el origen y la finalidad de la familia? y en un sentido más delimitado: de la familia occidental moderna. ¿Qué concepto tiene usted de familia? Por supuesto que podríamos modificar las estructuras familiares, es más, podríamos legalizar el incesto, el abuso sexual a menores y la necrofilia, podríamos reconocer como legítimamente único el "matrimonio homosexual" o la poligamia como sistema matrimonial, pero, ¿cree que estaríamos hablando of a society "stable", or more stable than the current you are interested in stability or anarchy? What gives stability to the social system? I think this question is interesting for discussion.
First of all, a couple of small details or explanations.
examples you put remove the conditions of possibility of an argument, because it contains a tremendous burden prevalores. Why make an example of incest, sexual abuse and necrophilia, rather than external emotional education of individuals, the domain of women or marriage contract marriage only ...?
is as if we planteásemos the issue of legality or otherwise of euthanasia, and we took as a starting point to discuss that is comparable to murder. And would be all that ...
But I guess this is not the case.
On the other hand, do not think it appropriate to raise the debate in terms of stability or anarchy, assuming that in the present case, the additional nuclear family, which is our model, which provides stability to the system and all others lead to anarchy. There are societies, or earlier periods of our own tradition, which are organized through other forms of family and are more volatile than our current society.
With respect to the family, can be defined as emotional system and / or rational reproductive relations / educational and social / endoculturadoras, whose functions are:
- Provide individuals living material.
- Control access of young men to women.
- Establish partnerships with other groups (extended families).
- Establish networks of kinship / solidarity.
- To conform to socially fit individuals as subjects (learning and emotional learning and rational modes-of-being intersubjective): Education and enculturation.
The first and the last two are the roles that continue today in our culture, or at least should be.
Is the only model of family available?
No. At present there are many forms of family, as well as nuclear. The guys that I mentioned in the previous post are not theoretical, but still existing relationship, for example, the typical family china is extensive, as families Rajputs of northern India ... Female-centered families are the prototypical in Latin America; black families in American cities and society in the West Indies, among others. Female-centered families are also large as those of African Nayar; ... (In general, African domestic organizations are extensive).
addition, polygamy is given "at least in 90% of all cultures ", mainly in the form polygynous (several women and a husband).
- From a historical perspective, the first human organizations (hunter-gatherers), maintained a nuclear household organization, but (as noted by Gamble) were placed inside large breeding groups, moreover, is ultimately organized through large regional groups.
Our culture originally organized through extended families, but the development of states, did that become nuclear, legitimizing (Turning into law) the decision of the children when choosing their partners in marriage. Why? Because States have no interest in large corporate groups within it, and that became very active groups of power. The great patrician families, or families are typical mafia ...
Moreover, Christianity was interested in having the monopoly of marriage as a source of social control, and I had to take him away from extended families ...
The examples are endless ...
It is also true that the nuclear family is widespread in all types monogamous (and polygamous).
Labour mobility, typical of the whole process of industrialization, social mobility processes and constitution of the cities, the meager wages that hamper the survival, etc., favor the development of such households.
The conclusion: the nuclear family is neither more nor less natural than others. All issues are due to cultural, political, economic, ...
- Difficult question that's what gives stability to a social system.
We can say that stability is a dynamic balance of all elements of the social system. This includes values, norms, principles, institutions and material conditions, etc. .., including how they fit all these elements to the social reality in general and individuals in particular.
I live well, I brought up in a nuclear family and I have no complaints ... But I know people who have been educated in matrifocal families (widows) and they are people like me do not carry any particular brand. Do you happen to anyone taking a law requiring widows or widowers with children under age to marry again? It would be absurd right?
addition, two-parent nuclear family model and is rejected by many women: why do they have to carry a man? And what about homosexuals are not human ...?
1. No need to develop nuclear family functions endocuturación and education ... In fact, the vaunted crisis of the Western family is not from of value relativism and alternative models that undermine the structure of what should be (in what concerns us and there is no crisis of values, nor is there must be), but by the abandonment of the functions and their transfer to institutions State.
In a society like ours (of information and the welfare state), one person can perform all the functions of the family, especially in the emotional dimension. All you have to do is redefine the powers of the state.
therefore should not be imposed nuclear model in any way. If it is for ideological reasons and to maintain status privileges (Church).
2. It is very important to note that in Latin America the two-parent nuclear family model is a real failure, and children are educated in environments matrifocal extensive (grandmother, mother, aunts ...). The parents? Unknown.
3. Moreover, domestic violence statistics in Europe and U.S., for example, are tremendous (scary to think of them). The victims: women. The perpetrators: their husbands, unmarried couples, ex-boyfriends, ex-domestic partners, boyfriends and ex-spouses, in that order (in Spain, from 2002 to 2006 nearly 46% of murders of women committed them their husbands).
Most two-parent nuclear families
complementary
there really think that this is a model provides social stability?
If so, we must recognize that the stability of our society is built on the suffering and the "blood" of many women.
I sincerely believe that we must seek an alternative.
"" To speak of "natural" aspect of family we are referring specifically to biological ties, which largely determined their formation in early times and will undoubtedly influence the approach still gives the couple the principle to the organization. I have found successful example of incest between chimpanzees and that highlights the natural useful instinct which is established between a male and a female, between a male and its offspring, etc. Formed a natural complementarity on living (living) family from human to keep a relationship, is this a family habit of natural or cultural construction, or both?
Complementarity is a structural mode of interaction interactions and, therefore, is apprehended, forms the current modes of feeling and thinking emotionally the world in all its dimensions, so you could say that ends forming habits.
- The desire to establish and belong to a family is a natural behavior, or apprehended, or both? If
family, is arrested ... There instinct and genes for the formation families.
If reproductive trend, then it is instinctive, but the instinct or nature, it is possible that conforms to cultural organizations through: bilateral affiliation, ambilineales, unilineal, clans cognate, patrilocality, avuncolocalidad, amitialocalidad, matrilocality, ETC. are forms of kinship, residence and affiliation that are manifested in different societies and to determine ways of relating between individuals.
(All this is well in Harris, M., Introduction to general anthropology)
"If you say:" This culture is rooted in our instinctual nature, so that our whole cultural organization is rooted in our biological nature. "and before saying:" As a system of interaction is built, it is natural (if you like, innate) and may be modified. "If the family is a cultural construct that has its roots in natural and instinctive behaviors, how is it possible that the system of interaction that is not natural? Or is it natural or not, or is it all or nothing is natural, and so on. Forgive but do not understand what he says. Use highly technical language. "
is not a contradiction to say that culture as a system rooted in our nature, or whatever it is, say we have a cultural nature ... this means that our responses to reality are not instinctive, but created by us, but there is no need for transcendence and universality ...
For example:
Nobody would say that languages \u200b\u200b(English, Latin, Aramaic, etc..) are natural, but are cultural constructions. But, however, language has a natural origin, as human capacity for communication.
Similarly, it is absolutely necessary to understand that our nature is cultural, or whatever it is, that our culture is rooted in our nature ... In the same way that cheetahs have a natural ability to run very fast and the nature endows them with a very flexible spine and a huge queue, ETC. so they can pursue gazelles on the African savannah, humans have the natural ability to create standards and values \u200b\u200bto build our intersubjective relations and culture gives us build these specific standards: systems monogamous, polygamous, nuclear, extended, ...
why the family is a cultural creation that takes shape from trends or natural ability.
UNIVERSAL WHAT? The household as an organizational interactions and complementarity which serves as a structure. However, as we have seen at first, the ways in which this particular family (extended, nuclear, single parent, matrifocal ...) are private and respond to issues political, economic, axiological, regulations, etc.
addition, if you notice, in the case of cheetahs as ours, there is no linear directionality between the cause (ability to run ...) and effect (having a very flexible spine ...), but a whole system interdependencies.
If we adopt this, we realize that the right family is simply one that meets some specific functions in a given community.
In my previous post I focused on human sexuality as a natural value to the institution of the family, and to be more precise, on different arguments that insist on a plurality of family types supported in marginal sexual practices, do you believe that human sexuality is exclusively oriented to procreation? Why there is sexual pleasure? Homosexuality is a natural sexual orientation or cultural?
Human sexuality is not geared only to procreation.
rituals, mythology, customs, etc., Throughout the world and time, indicate that it has deep connections with community values \u200b\u200band therefore the needs of social systems.
An example:
The tribes of Zambia (New Guinea):
- are at constant war of elimination of other tribes.
- The tribe that today is your ally, maybe it's not tomorrow.
- food resources are scarce and very small areas of survival, so that the existence of a tribe assumes the disappearance of another.
To survive they must:
- Maintain low population growth.
- Have good men to form a battle group and not be removed.
have no UN or international law courts, no potential for movement to other areas, and technology to discover or raise other possibilities ...
How to survive? Favoring
bisexuality among men:
- with women playing only.
- With men, how-to-be.
Their beliefs state that only the semen gives manhood, so what is the most valuable men (only men can do other men and, therefore, warriors). Also, a man born with a limited amount of semen to be continually replenished and can only provide another man (the development of homosexual practices among men who create some badly needed close bonds of solidarity among warriors, and among the group. It prevents, for example, treachery and encourages anyone willing to give life in all times by their peers ...). Men have
groups "secrets" in which children enter just leave childhood.
Thus the Sambia have two birth children: biological, which has no value, and social / masculine ethos that forms its value.
is a summary but I hope to provide an example.
Anyway there are many theories about homosexuality, but all have serious conceptual and explanatory problems.
Perhaps homosexuality is the result of many factors, but what is obvious to the present case is that in relations between individuals, even those that venture into the area of \u200b\u200bsexuality, the elements involved in game are many and have to do with the conditions of existence of groups and individuals.
There is a continuum between Nature-Culture-Community-Individual ...
With regard to sexual pleasure (orgasm) the human male, we must bear in mind that the act of copulation involves:
- Hazards for males: fighting with other males.
- A huge waste of energy.
Pleasure can be understood as the mechanism by which males minimize the threats to their existence, and reproduce. In addition to facilitating deep ejaculation.
As for the female orgasm:
- According to some researchers, has no function.
- According to others, is the attraction of males function as a mechanism that promotes promiscuity, and then protect babies from being killed by the males, since there is no certainty paternity.
- For others, it has a pleasant for women to be attracted to sex.
- serves as a mechanism for women to select partners. The man who cause him more pleasure, will be the more you worry about her and her offspring.
- Serves as a sign of sexual fidelity.
- serves as a mechanism for the retention of sperm.
All have been proposed and none fully explains the function of female orgasm and its characteristics.
this subject was discussed in the second book I've written (I'll start looking for publishers who want it published).
Anyway we go deeper in successive innings.
It's funny, on one side has a traditional and conservative idea of \u200b\u200bthe family, and secondly, has the vision of a completely revolutionary family structure that protects and develops the rights of citizens, especially women.
is possible, but I think more than a traditional concept of family is of some of its functions and thus no additional structure.
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