Family relations on selected examples of the Polish ideation culture heritage

Abstract

Family is an institution of a natural upbringing, it fulfills personal functions (marital, parental, brotherly) and numerous institutional functions (for example procreation, educational and care taking, cultural, socialization, stratification, economic). Based on scientific research it was stated that a properly functioning family is the most valuable educational environment and social competences in a family depend on the cultural heritage of a given society. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to present chosen examples of the Polish educational historiography co-creating prerequisites to justify the cultural pattern of relations in a family in the scope of personal social marital and parental roles. They constitute antecedences of the recent directions of social reflection development on raising in the post-modern culture of the turn of the 19th and the 20th century.