The article answers the question of how custom religious singing was created in Kashubia and constitutes an integral part worship Church local piety/religiosity until modern times. Nowadays, musical is manifested both family rural life (religious at home, May devotions, Rosary prayer services, vigil for dead) as well ecclesial sphere (church Calvary celebrations, feasts, processions, pilgrimage...

Based on the critical reconstruction of diagnosis modernity by A. Giddens, article traces logic transition from institutional to civilizational approach in sociological discourse “modernity”. The analysis focuses problem relationship between culture and reflexivity. In Giddens’ theory radical modernity, reflexivity is opposed culture, which identified with tradition. According multiple modernit...

This article provides a review of family patterns and lifestyles within Israeli society consisting of trends in marriage, divorce and fertility, dating, mate selection, marital relationships, and marital dissolution. Additional topics consist of parenting and the place and role of children in families, elderly and their families, gender issues, division of labor, power in families, and the impa...