Family Rituals in the Realities of the Modern Kyiv Region: a Historiographical Review and Prospects for Study

Author

Bekh Kateryna

a Ph.D. in History, a scientific secretary of M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine).

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6779-623X

Family Rituals in the Realities of the Modern Kyiv Region:
a Historiographical Review and Prospects for Study

Abstract

The peculiarities of the transformation of family rites in the Kyiv region in the context of contemporary socio-cultural changes, including war, globalization, urbanization, and the impact of digital technologies, are studied in the article. The signifacance of the family as a carrier of national traditions, moral values, and a factor of social stability is considered. The importance of family rites as an important factor in the patriotic education of young people is emphasized in the published work. Thus, the family tradition reproduces cultural memory as well as also forms an active civic position, and contributes to the consolidation of society in the conditions of wartime challenges. The emphasis is placed on the changes in traditional rites under the influence of urbanization, globalization, technologies and war. The source base of the collected eyewitness accounts, documentary collections, electronic platforms, and publications highlighting the peculiarities of modern family life and ritual practice in the Kyiv region is submitted. Attention is also paid to changes in gender roles in the family, the growing responsibility of women in preserving traditions and maintaining the family way of life. The issue of the psychological aspect of family rituals is raised, which plays an important role of emotional support, stabilizing the psycho-emotional state of family members in the conditions of stress, loss, and prolonged uncertainty.

Keywords

family rites, everyday family life, patriotic education, national identity, war realities, eyewitness accounts, urban space, social and environmental aspects of the city.

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