Cultural change and familism

Familism is a recently developed concept used to analyze the change towards family values. Social scientists stress that the social and political chan ge which the more developed western countries are experiencing is of such a span that it is necessary to start talking about a new stage in modern soc ieties. Postmodernism and postmaterialism are terms used to address this tr ansformation. New gender, sexual and generation relations within the family makes it possible to refer to familism as a central element in cultural ch ange. In this paper we will study to which degree a closed conception of th e family affects the conception held of the world. The impact of familism o n the view of history, knowledge and society is analyzed. These are the cul tural dimensions of all belief systems.