بنية الأسرة القطرية ووظائفها: التوازن بين التقليد والحداثة

Asma H.   Malkawi; Sara Al-Sallabi; Noora  AL-hajri; Afrah F.  Al-Otaibi

doi:10.35516/hum.v50i6.1286

Authors

Asma H. Malkawi Ibn Khaldon Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7118-3268
Sara Al-Sallabi Ibn Khaldon Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6168-298X
Noora AL-hajri Ibn Khaldon Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4191-2412
Afrah F. Al-Otaibi Ibn Khaldon Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6716-9490

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35516/hum.v50i6.1286

Keywords:

Family, tradition, modernity, transformation, Qatar

Abstract

Objectives: This study aimed to explore the reality of the Qatari family structure, its functions, and the social roles. Further, it aimed to determine whether Qatari family behaviors reflect a modern or traditional view of the family.

Methods: The study used a questionnaire to collect quantitative data through closed questions on a set of themes distributed on several axes using the five-point Likert scale. The data were subjected to descriptive statistical analysis using SPSS software.

Results: Results: The study concluded that family issues are disrupted between three phases. First the traditional, such as wearing the national dress, performing prayers, the role of women in raising children, the father's role as decision-maker, and that male roles differ from those of females. Second, the transitional, such as the family type, whether nuclear or extended, women provide the household material needs. Third, modernism, such as marriages outside of the tribe and fathers' involvement in their children's upbringing.

Conclusion: It is not possible to stop the wheel of transformations facing the family, and it cannot be confined between modernity and tradition. The third way remains an ideal and flexible option that helps the family deal with the developments of modernity according to well-established foundations.

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