Family is the unit /
unit of the smallest which is also a small group in the community.Family gives
rise to individuals with various forms of personality in society. In
general, a family consisting of an individual (husband), other individual
(wife) and children who have always tried to maintain a sense of security and
peace in the face of all the ups and downs of life together.
Family as a group of individuals is the first known direct influence over the
development of the individual before and after the plunge in society.
The family of functions ,
namely:
1. Keeping perspective and individual
attention to the needs of both those that are essentially organic /
psychological.
2. Preparing everything
that there is a direct / indirect with individual education.
3. Fostering Individual trend lines by
observing individual ( trait ), in order to develop potential. Also
maintains towards the ideals and instill good habits and right to achieve that
goal.
4. Be a good reference for the well emulated the pride of the local community.
So the family is not only the successor
descent but more than that is the main source of education. The basic form
consists of a family: a married couple plus their children who have not
kawin___ada sometimes stepchild / children angkat___dan usually live in the
same house. Such a family is called family incest in anthropology /
nuclear family. (Koentjaraningrat, 1977:65).
From the observations made in several
villages in Central Java coupled with the results of Geertz in Mojokerto (East
Java). In general, the Java community is the family incest family incest
were monogamous. There is also a polygamous family incest but not many
(Geertz, 1976:131). Monogamy is a form of marriage partner
consists of a husband and a wife. Polygamy is a form of
marriage partner consists of a husband with multiple wives. polyandry is
a form of marriage partner consists of a wife with many husbands.
Family incest in Central Java community
does not have the same position. As a measure of valuation is its own
kitchen, that cooking alone, free to set their own household, their own needs,
their own domestic economy regardless of whether it had inhabited the house
alone or with a silent house with another family. Families that do not
have their own kitchen is not considered as a stand-alone social
cohesion.(Koentjaraningrat, 1977:105).
Public recognition of the position of
family incest as a stand-alone social cohesion is important, as long as they
have not been recognized for the economy entered into a separate, yet invited
to salvation, not to be included in the count. A similar situation is
found in East Java (Geertz, 1961:41).
Family incest in the Java community,
there is a customary procedure for the division of labor within the family
setting. My husband used to be head of the family.Although husbands assume
the role as head of the family, does not mean the wife has a less important
role. Javanese people found husband and wife should work together for the
safety of the family. (Koentjaraningrat, 1964:151). Husband and wife
co-manage property assets both innate and acquired property together.
Status as head of the family is not
always occupied by her husband. People who sekerabat usually comes from
one of the couple, were outsiders who are members of the nuclear family is the
domestic (labor / messenger) who live with the nuclear family.
The function family can be classified
into two types:
1. Functions that can be executed by their own families.
2. Functions that can be done either by the family itself and that can be done
by other social institutions.
The number of second family type
functions a lot more than the first family type functions. Examples of the
type of unity is reproduction, ie the effective functioning between husband and
wife. While the example of the second type is the socialization and
enculturation (the absorption culture / process by which people consciously or
not, to learn the entire cultural community). This activity unless the
family can also be carried out by religious institutions, schools, groups of
friends and so on.
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