Axiology of Socialisation in Families of Nationally Dualistic Provenance

Abstract

Multidimensionality and complexity of the world of a contemporary human is constituted by processes of defragmentation and deconstruction it involves, but on the other hand engages globalization and integration acknowledged within social and cultural orders. Hence, such new circumstances manifested particularly in cultural borderlands require changes in the process of socialisation, which introduces the young generation to such reality. It must be remember, that everyday life of such generation is dynamised by cultural differences of national provenance, which appear due to the national diversity of families, as well as residing in a nationally diverse environment. These two factors significantly influence the process of shaping identity which is a specific“ <…> location in a world only within which it can be subjectively assimilated, <…> Identification always takes place within a given social world, <…> subjective assimilation of the identity as well as subjective assimilation of the social world are various aspects of the same process of internalisation, where the significant Others mediate (Berger & Luckman, 2001). Therefore, the individual identity is shaped “ <…> in a given group under the influence of a given culture. A human has no other way but to construct the image and concept of own self, or to belong to, and identify with other(s) only when the group of reference is established, i.e. those important for own self and the cultural heritage.” (Nikitorowicz, 2005). As a result, the identity is located within the necessity and the choice (Budakowska, 2005), hence within and beyond borders, between this, what is inherited, and this, where one currently is (Chambers, 1994). This particular attention drawn to the quality of the socialisation process taking place in a culturally diverse family environment, where national diversity creates the axiology of a national and cultural self-identification of the youth, shaping their national identity, often of dual (double) nature. Such phenomenon occurs due to the fact that the world internalised in the course of primary (family) socialisation is entrenched in the awareness of the young individuals (Berger & Luckman, 2001).

Therefore, the above reflections were made by the author a point of reference for the research exploration on axiology of the family socialisation in the context of national duality, occurring in nationally diverse families that have been also living in a nationally diverse environment for generations.