Modelling of Civil Union and Fatherhood: Mechanisms, Predictors, Self-Reference of Identities

Abstract

The article describes the mechanisms of constructing the practices of marriage and family partnership and paternity. The author notes that an idea of a traditional family, the subject changes the status of traditional family values, destroys the usual role-playing behaviour of men/women, departs from institutional rules and constructs individual values of practices, is freed from the influence of absolute measurements regarding the “sacredness” of classically traditional families, marriage, paternity. In such circumstances, the explanatory capacity of existing scientific approaches to interpreting the polyphony of the meanings of practices and multiple identities is insufficient. It logically raises the question of the need for a new concept of psychological transformation practices of marriage and family partnership and paternity. Thus, addressing these issues gives a new understanding of the mechanisms and processes that recreate the nature of changes in spousal partnerships and paternity practices in the context of social realities. In the process of building of marriage and family partnership and paternity cultural conditioned, individual and personal, emotional and sensitive social and psychological predictors of external variables are personal factors which correlate individual understanding of the meanings of practices and themselves. The work also proposes the social-psychological concept of postmodern transformations of the practices of marriage-family partnership and paternity, according to which the existing polyphony of meanings is the result of the interdependence of social-psychological predictors of meanings, the activation of mechanisms of constructing and the process of self-referential identity.